The decline of the global Left stems from several reasons.

Left-wing parties are more unpopular now than at any time since the end of the cold war, an analysis of recent elections revealed. The Left suffered a record-low average of just 45 per cent of votes in dozens of ballots held globally last year, according to the analysis of 73 democratic elections, conducted by the Telegraph.

In the United States and Western Europe, progressives were even more unpopular, with the left-leaning parties securing only 42 per cent of their respective votes. The Right, meanwhile, won 57 per cent of the average votes — representing the widest gap since 1990,

the analysis found.

The global decline of the political Left is all the more interesting in the light of US President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide election victory. Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday, secured the popular vote with 77 million votes compared to the 75 million his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, raked in.

Experts say that the Left’s declining popularity is only expected to continue, the New York Post wrote. In the wake of Harris’ defeat, leftist parties in Canada, Australia, and Germany are already predicted to suffer similar losses in upcoming elections. „The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon,” Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, told the outlet.

In Canada, polls are already showing that its conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is the favorite to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the left-wing leader’s abrupt resignation earlier this month. Meanwhile, Australia’s conservative party has also inched ahead of its ruling progressive government prior to a planned election later this year, polls show.

Experts have pinned the right’s rising popularity, in part, on hardline immigration policies in the US and parts of Europe.

Jeremy Cliffe, of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said three trends were also tied to the boost:

• the globalisation-driven decline of organised labour,
• rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and
• a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite.