Religion and voting behaviour

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I set all the parties in Germany to prefer protestant, excluding the Centre party, where it prefers Catholics. I presumed the vast majority of catholics would, therefore, vote for the only party whos policies accepted them whatsoever. Yet I saw literally no increase in support for the only catholic party in the country. 1% in polls despite 33% of the country being catholic.

Why would they vote for a non catholic party? Can anyone explain to me what that option even means if it doesnt make catholics favour that party...?

 

[MannheimCouncil]

It's been awhile, but doesn't that only mean that no non-catholics will vote for such a party? If the catholic pops prefer another ideology, they will still vote for that ideology and not for the conservative Zentrum. Try setting all the other parties to protestant and see what happens.

 

[banal.evil]

Religion has absolutely no effect upon pop voting behavior in Vicky. You could manually edit the save file to change the religion for each pop to Therevada and their votes wouldn't change a bit.

 

[Cliges]

It does have an effect if the POP has one of the possible religious policies as one of their issues.

In the case of the OP, it could be that the Catholic POPs either vote according to ideology rather than issues, or religion is not one of their issues.