You aren't alone. You just haven't been counted yet.

Tens of thousands of people take the World's Smallest Political Quiz every month. Here is where they land, and how few of them had a word for it. Move over a number to see its people.

Which one are you?Stand up and be counted

Libertarians would rather persuade you than force you, and would rather be persuaded than forced. Ask ten plain questions about how much the government should run your life and your livelihood, and a libertarian mostly answers less. Most people who answer that way have never used the word. The definition this site uses.

0people counted since July 1More than 28 million since 1994

Every dot is thirty people. They are placed by their two scores. The colors are the five types.

The chart

Each person lands in one of 121 cells according to their two scores, and each cell belongs to one of five types. Move over a cell to read it. This is the same chart in daylight, and the one you can put on your own site.

Move over the chart

Each cell is one pair of scores, personal and economic. Its color is the type the quiz assigns to that pair.

LibertarianWants the government to do less in personal life and in the economy both.

ConservativeMore freedom in the economy, more control in personal life.

ProgressiveMore freedom in personal life, more control in the economy.

AuthoritarianMore government control in both.

ModerateNear the middle on both. A bit of each.

If there are this many, where are they?

A fair question. If 29% score libertarian, why does the Libertarian Party get about 1% of the vote? Three answers, all of them in the numbers on this page.

14%They do not use the wordOf everyone who holds the positions, 14% call themselves libertarian. People do not join, fund or vote for a label they have never applied to themselves. That gap is the reason this site exists: it counts the positions, not the label.

2The ballot has two linesAmerican elections are winner-take-all, so they settle into two parties, and neither one stands for both kinds of freedom. One tends to defend your personal life, the other your livelihood. A voter who wants both has to pick which matters more this year, and nearly everyone picks one of the two. That is how 29% can hold libertarian positions while 1.2% vote for the Libertarian candidate. The quiz measures what people believe, not how they vote.

72kThese are quiz takers, not the country71,691 people who chose to take a political quiz. That is a self-selected sample, not a representative one, so their share is not the country's share. To measure the country, Advocates for Self-Government has commissioned a national survey of American adults. The forthcoming report will print both figures side by side, each labeled.

None of this makes the count smaller. It means a great many people agree on the direction and have never been counted together. Changing that is the one thing this site asks of you.

Take part

A count is something a crowd does. Five ways to join in, all of them running today.

1Be countedTake the quiz. Your dot joins the crowd the same day, with nothing attached but two scores. 3Count the people around youA live session with a join code, a booth poster with a QR code, or the quiz on your own site. Anyone can host. 4Report a winA law repealed, a license dropped, a ruling that widened someone's choices. We check it and add it. 5Find your peopleSay where you are, who you are and what you care about, and meet the organizations working on it. Nothing is saved.

Go deeper

The count by state, what the movement changed this year, the annual report, and how every number here was made.

50States, scoredEvery state scored 0 to 100 on its laws, its quiz takers and its vote, with every part shown. Then a page for each. 28Wins on the ledgerBans lifted, permits dropped, rules repealed and rulings won, each sourced and dated. 2027The reportThe State of the Politically Homeless, first edition, with the national survey beside the quiz. 10The definitionTen plain questions, two minutes. What "libertarian" means here, and the three ways people meet the word. 121The methodWhere every number comes from, what it covers and what it leaves out. Downloads, and how to cite them.