Eurosceptic parties' share of vote in EU 2022

The vote share of eurosceptic parties in national elections has risen across Europe since the turn of the millennium. Following the onset of the Eurozone crisis in the early 2010s, eurosceptic parties saw a surge in support, rising from 12.6 percent of all votes cast in national parliamentary elections in 2012 to consistently over 20 percent after 2013. This trend of rising Euroscepticism has continued into the 2020s, as the share of all eurosceptic parties reached a new high of 27.2 percent in 2022, although this was made up of only 13.7 percent hardline eurosceptic parties - that is, parties that outright state they would want their country to leave the EU or to dismantle the EU in its current form.

Vote share of all eurosceptic parties and hardline eurosceptic parties in national parliamentary elections the European Union from 2000 to 2022

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Release date

June 2023

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Region

Europe, EU

Survey time period

2000 to 2022

Supplementary notes

Position with regard to the EU was measured using the Chapel Hill Expert Survey and data collection by the EU's directorate general for regional and urban policy.

‘Hardline’ eurosceptic parties, covers parties that were assessed to be opposed or strongly opposed to EU integration (a score of less than 2.5 on EU position). The second category, all eurosceptic parties, is a wider category and includes parties that are somewhat opposed as well as those that are opposed or strongly opposed (i.e. all parties with a score of less than 3.5 on EU position).

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