Political Landscape of Georgia - Election Compass Georgia 2024

The results offer valuable insights into where many Georgian voters stand on the left-right and conservative-liberal axes. This tool not only highlights broad patterns within the electorate, but also allows for comparing party platforms with voter preferences, revealing key points of alignment and divergence.

Overall, Compass users tend to hold moderate and somewhat left-leaning economic views, favoring greater state involvement in the economy. Views on judicial, foreign, and social policies lean more liberal or centrist, while healthcare, education, economic, and environmental stances are more consistently left-wing.

Notably, only four of the 32 policy statements show full or partial convergence among parties, contrary to a generally accepted assumption of the lack of ideological pluralism among Georgia’s political parties. The 2024 elections also saw major ideological shifts, particularly within Georgian Dream, which pivoted from moderate socio-cultural positions to more conservative stances.

Additionally, individuals who favor leftist economics yet hold conservative social views are more prone to remain unaffiliated. Older voters show a higher rate of affiliation, while socially liberal, pro-Western voters typically back a specific party. As Georgian Dream occupies the conservative-left quadrant, one might expect unaffiliated voters to gravitate in its direction.

Between October 4, 2024 (when the tool went online) and election day, 33,719 users fully completed the questionnaire (overall, 59,000 users utilized the tool) - a number that far exceeded participation in the 2020 Election Compass. Data were weighted to reflect demographic cross-sections of the Georgian population as per the 2014 national census.

Davit Keshelava, Rati Shubladze, David Sichinava, Tornike Surguladze
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Tbilisi, 2025