Which political ideology are you actually closest to?
Most tests pick their axes first and squeeze you onto them. This one starts from what many ideologies believe, finds the real dividing lines between them, and asks you only the statements that tell them apart.
- Free
- No sign-up
- Usually 5–10 minutes
- Open source
How it works
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Answer what matters most
Statements come one at a time. The first ones are where ideologies disagree most. After that, each one is chosen to separate the ideologies you're still close to.
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Stop when it settles
A bar shows how settled your result is. Once it's clear, you can see your results or keep answering to refine them.
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See who you're close to, and why
Get your nearest ideologies, what each stands for, the statements you agree and disagree on, and where you sit on the real dividing lines.
Ideologies
Every ideology in the test, where it sits on the dividing lines, what it stands for, and where to read more.
All ideologies
People
Political leaders, thinkers and activists from every region, era and side of politics. Your results show whose recorded positions are closest to yours.
Each person's answers come from their own words and record, with sources. Where there's no reliable evidence, the answer is left blank instead of guessed. Someone is only included if their record places them at least as precisely as your own answers place you, so people with only a few public stances are left out. When two people match you almost equally, the one more people read about on Wikipedia comes first.
About
Political Ideology Atlas is a free, open-source political ideology test. Instead of placing you on axes someone chose in advance, it learns the dividing lines from what the ideologies themselves believe.
How the test works
The ideologies. Each of the many ideologies has an answer to every statement, describing how a committed adherent would answer.
The dividing lines. The test looks at how the ideologies' answers differ and finds the directions in which they differ most, using a method called principal component analysis. To tell real dividing lines from noise, it shuffles every statement's answers at random many times and keeps only the lines that are clearly bigger than anything the shuffled data produces.
The questions. Statements are picked one at a time. The first ones are those the ideologies disagree about most. After that, each statement is the one that best separates the ideologies you're still close to, so you can stop early once your result settles.
The match percentage. It compares your answers with each ideology's on the statements you answered. 100% means identical answers, and 0% means as far apart as the two most opposite ideologies.
Where the profiles come from
Every ideology's answers come from a written audit: its position on each statement, a short rationale, a confidence level, and the sources behind it. The audits and the exact research instructions are public on GitHub, so anyone can check them or suggest a correction. The list of ideology names follows the one used by 12axes; all descriptions, answers and sources here are researched independently.
Colors and accessibility
Each ideology is shown with a color for its broad family and a shape for its category, and its category is always written out too, so nothing depends on color alone. The colors follow the international convention (red for the left, gold for liberals and the center, blue for the right) in shades tested to stay distinguishable for people with color-vision deficiency, and each meets the WCAG 2.2 contrast minimum on both light and dark backgrounds.
Privacy
There are no accounts and no tracking. Your answers stay in your browser, which remembers your progress on this device. A share link contains your answers to each statement and nothing else, so anyone you send it to can see how you answered.
Photos of people are freely licensed images shown from Wikimedia Commons, credited with each photo. Your browser loads them directly from Wikimedia's servers, without telling Wikimedia which page you're on.
Support
The test is free, has no ads and doesn't track you. If you found it useful, you can support it on Ko-fi. Contributions help pay for the research behind each profile.
Open source
The code, data and audits are on GitHub. If something looks wrong, such as an ideology's position, a source or a bug, please open an issue.