ABSTRACT
This chapter interrogates the impact of six socio-demographics or descriptive characteristics on vote choice across four geopolitical regions of the globe (i.e. sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, East Asia, and post-communist Europe). Overall, these results suggest quite a lot of agreement across newly consolidated democracies but some inconsistency too. To be specific, while the effect of some socio-demographics determinants of vote choice across the four regions is uniform (i.e. age, religion, residence, and education), for others (gender and ethnicity/race) this is not the case. Overall, it would suffice to say that socio-demographic models are strong determinants of vote choice in Latin America, post-Communist European countries, and, to a lesser extent, East Asia. For sub-Saharan Africa, we cannot conclude that the socio-demographic predictors are generally powerful determinants of vote choice.
