An emerging body of research suggests that the global housing crisis is pushing voters towards populist candidates in elections.
In the US, there was a median increase in the vote for Trump of 3.1 percentage points compared to the 2020 election.
Mainstream political parties and candidates around the world should take note because there is an important message for them in the detail of how Americans opted to vote. In these places, house prices rose faster than the national average and more than doubled between 2019 and this year, according to.
Both Trump and his defeated rival Kamala Harris knew that housing was a problem for the people whose votes they wanted. They talked about it regularly. What did they conclude? That house prices played a major role in shaping support for Brexit and Le Pen.Housing was a key concern for voters in last year’s Dutch elections. These were won by the far-right Freedom Party headed by Geert Wilders, who is openly anti-Islam.right-wing populist party ChegaIndeed, here Reform outpaced the Conservatives in some areas in July’s election and could yet emerge as the real opposition to Labour next time we go to the polls.
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