daveman
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Right-wing groups emerged as global winners after more than 1.5bn voted in over 70 countries last year
Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, The Telegraph has assessed.
The analysis comes after a year of election triumphs for conservatives around the world, crowned by Donald Trump’s election as US president.
Right-wing groups emerged as the worldwide winners after more than 1.5 billion people voted in more than 70 countries in 2024, the most on record in a single year.
Leftist parties suffered a record low average vote share of just 45.4 per cent in each democracy’s latest election, according to Telegraph analysis of elections in 73 democracies.
In Western Europe and the US, Left-wing parties secured just 42.3 per cent of the vote while the Right won 55.7 per cent, which represents the widest gap in vote share since 1990.
Meanwhile, the hard-Right scored a record high vote share of 14.7 per cent after radical politicians performed well in elections from France to Panama.
The Left’s demise can even be charted in Latin America, a stronghold of socialism after years of brutal fascist dictatorships.
After Mr Trump’s inauguration this month, further defeats are expected to be inflicted on the Left in Canada, Australia and Germany, the EU’s largest economy.
“The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon,” Prof Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, said.
Jeremy Cliffe, the editorial director and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said the global turn to the Right was the result of three interconnected trends: “The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite.”
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Predictions:
Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the Cold War, The Telegraph has assessed.
The analysis comes after a year of election triumphs for conservatives around the world, crowned by Donald Trump’s election as US president.
Right-wing groups emerged as the worldwide winners after more than 1.5 billion people voted in more than 70 countries in 2024, the most on record in a single year.
Leftist parties suffered a record low average vote share of just 45.4 per cent in each democracy’s latest election, according to Telegraph analysis of elections in 73 democracies.
In Western Europe and the US, Left-wing parties secured just 42.3 per cent of the vote while the Right won 55.7 per cent, which represents the widest gap in vote share since 1990.
Meanwhile, the hard-Right scored a record high vote share of 14.7 per cent after radical politicians performed well in elections from France to Panama.
The Left’s demise can even be charted in Latin America, a stronghold of socialism after years of brutal fascist dictatorships.
After Mr Trump’s inauguration this month, further defeats are expected to be inflicted on the Left in Canada, Australia and Germany, the EU’s largest economy.
“The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon,” Prof Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, said.
Jeremy Cliffe, the editorial director and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said the global turn to the Right was the result of three interconnected trends: “The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite.”
Additional information at the link.
Predictions:
- USMB leftists will respond with NUH UH!! because, really, that's about all they do anyway when faced with reality.
- Leftists worldwide will learn nothing from their defeats, choosing instead to double down on leftist bullshit policies and to insult those who have made clear they're not interested in leftist bullshit because, really, that's about all they do anyway when faced with reality.
