Earlier this month, Vox, the far-right populist party of Spain, became the third-biggest faction in the Spanish parliament following a general election in the country. The anti-Muslim and ultra-conservative party gained over 15 percent of the seats, sending 52 representatives to parliament.

As Statista's Katharina Buchholz shows in the infographic below, this type of incident is not unusual in European countries. Far-right parties have garnered even more success on the national level in several countries recently.