---
title: "How traditional and populist party support differs across Western Europe"
description: "Explore our new interactive feature to learn more about what traditional and populist party support looks like in Western Europe."
date: "2018-09-12"
authors:
  - name: "Laura Silver"
    job_title: "Associate Director, Global Attitudes Research"
    link: "https://www.pewresearch.org/staff/laura-silver/"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2018/09/12/how-traditional-and-populist-party-support-differs-across-western-europe/"
---

# How traditional and populist party support differs across Western Europe

Populist parties and movements have disrupted the political landscape in Western Europe, from the [United Kingdom’s Brexit vote](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jun/24/britain-votes-for-brexit-eu-referendum-david-cameron) to the rise of a [populist governing coalition in Italy](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/world/europe/italy-government-populists.html). Amid these gains at the ballot box, journalists and other observers have debated whether these parties are [redrawing the map of Europe](https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2017-europe-populist-right/), [destroying traditional parties](https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2018/03/08/the-rise-of-european-populism-and-the-collapse-of-the-center-left/) or [pulling traditional parties more toward the ideological poles](https://www.economist.com/briefing/2018/02/03/europes-populists-are-waltzing-into-the-mainstream).

To learn more about what traditional and populist party support looks like in Western Europe, explore our new interactive feature below.

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