“…Indeed, feeling close to a party increases the expressive cost of strategic voting and is thus negatively associated with strategic voting, but that association is not significant. Furthermore, the level of political information is negatively correlated with strategic voting, a finding that differs from other studies, which have found a positive but not significant relationship (Blais and Gschwend 2011;Daoust 2015;Duch and Palmer 2002). Education, however, displays a positive sign, meaning that sophistication but not information might be positively related to strategic voting.…”