Over 70% of the supporters of the far-right party “Alternative for Germany“ (AfD) in 2024 are men, a new study published today by DPA shows, BTA reports.
The poll, conducted between March and June 2024. from the University of Leipzig, found that 70.6% of AfD supporters are men.
This is the largest male-dominated ratio among German parties, with AfD ahead of the pro-business Free Democratic Party and the Left, whose 62% of supporters are men.
Women, on the other hand, are in the overwhelming majority among the Greens, with only a third (33.6%) of them being men.
The analysis of voting preferences among 2,500 German voters, published just over two weeks before the country's election, found that AfD supporters are mostly middle-income earners or unemployed. Relatively few of them have a higher education.
Voters of the “Greens“ are at the opposite end of the spectrum, with 53% of them highly educated and 44% earning more than 3,500 euros a month.
The survey is part of a larger study of authoritarianism conducted by a university in eastern Germany last year.
It reveals that 22% of AfD voters have a closed, extremely far-right worldview, compared with just 2.5% of supporters of traditional parties such as the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the center-left Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
The AfD, investigated by domestic intelligence as a suspected extremist group, is in second place in many opinion polls ahead of the February 23 election, expected to receive more than 20% of the votes.
The survey shows that the main difference between CDU/CSU and AfD voters is the desire for strong government, with which supporters identify. Around 27% of AfD voters support this position, while only 14% of center-right bloc voters share the same idea.