International demographic/voting trends

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Any reason for this?

It's an incidental feature of Israeli voting patterns being dominated by ethnic and sectarian cleavages; Sephardic and Mizrahi families (who arrived following ethnic cleansing in the wider region from the 1950s onwards) are on average much lower down the income scale than Ashkenazi ones, etc.

And also because Left and Right don't exactly mean the same in Israel as elsewhere, denoting positions on existential/peace/security (use whatever word of combination of words you like best) as much as socio-economic matters. So pretty much uniquely for a secular party of the mainstream right the Likud is traditionally not explicitly antisocialist.

But then with party loyalties being so weak in Israel it's probably not so wise to act as if generalisations of the norm are ironcast or something; certainly the patterns on display in the 2006 election were... er... different.

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- Ethiopian Jews seem more left-leaning? Not completely sure on this.

Quite the opposite.

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I seem to remember seeing that in Italy, PD actually does best among the oldest age groups, which is pretty unique for left-wing parties.

I think that's because it inherited a good proportion of the old DC electorate and also because elderly Commies. It makes sense. It should be renamed as the Party of the Historic Compromise imo.

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I was about to add that there's no party on earth as ironic as the PD, but then I remembered that the remnants and dregs of the National Party merged into the ANC!