Fundamentals: Incumbent Parties Lost Ground All Over the World

 Our most recent book is titled Divided We Stand: The 2020 Elections and American Politics. Our next book will look at the 2024 election. Inflation was a major cause of the Democratic defeat.

 

Just to clarify: this isn’t just the first time since WW2 that all incumbent parties in developed countries lost vote share.

It’s the first time since this data was first recorded in 1905. Essentially the first time in the history of democracy (universal suffrage began in 1894). pic.twitter.com/04hdpN8aq0

— John Burn-Murdoch (@jburnmurdoch) November 7, 2024