Recent electoral victories of right-wing populist parties fuel a discussion about the roots of their success. Existing research has demonstrated the relevance of e.g. gender, education and income for explaining the vote for the far-right parties. The present study contributes to the aforementioned debate by focusing on the role of religiosity. The data collected in the 8th round of the European Social Survey (2016) make it possible to examine in more detail the political relevance of attendance at religious services and other measures of religious devotion. This study focuses in particular on thirteen countries, nine from Western Europe and four from Central and Eastern Europe. In none of Western European countries one may find a positive relationship between religiosity and vote for a right-wing populist party. On the contrary, in many countries of this region more religious voters are substantively less inclined to support far-right movements. The situation is different in parts of Central and Eastern Europe. In Poland, and to a weaker extend also in Slovenia, the probability of a vote for right-wing populists increases with religiosity.
