Research on populist radical right (PRR) electorates increasingly recognises a heterogeneity in voters’ attitudes on gender and sexuality issues. While voters with gender-traditional or sexist views are often more likely to support PRR parties in Europe, a growing literature also identifies ‘sexually-modern nativist’ voters who are particularly supportive of gender equality and/or LGBTQ+ rights yet nonetheless support the PRR when these views coincide with strong anti-immigration attitudes. However, existing research employing latent class analyses (LCA) to cluster PRR voters’ diverse gender attitudes has relied on a narrow set of indicators, predominantly measuring economic gender equality or attitudes to same sex relationships, reflecting limitations in question availability within large-scale surveys. Consequently, we lack a clear understanding of how distinct strands - gender-role traditionalism, anti-feminism, LGB rights, and trans/non-binary rights - cohere within the PRR electorate. To address this gap, we use an original survey fielded in six European countries, with a boosted sample of PRR voters, and a comprehensive battery of questions capturing gender role attitudes, as well as attitudes to feminism, LGB and trans rights. We use LCA to reveal nuanced and cross-cutting constellations of PRR voter’s gender attitudes, providing crucial knowledge on the demand-side of PRR support in a context of intensifying gender-mobilisation by anti-democratic actors across Europe and beyond.
