Twenty percent of Romanians live outside the country – a total of 5 million people
In the first round of the election on 4 May, the Romanian far right obtained even higher results outside its borders than it did within – Simion came first with more than 40 per cent of the vote in Romania, but took more than 60 per cent of the vote in the diaspora.
I’ve witnessed this for a few countries and think it applies to most countries. Emigrant votes tend to lean to the right. Why? Probably because they don’t have to deal with the consequences and don’t want things to have changed when they go back (so only the things you can’t do anything about will change), which is a conservative trait.