In this chapter we contribute to the debate on the voting behaviour of the population of immigrant origin by utilising the data collected by the Localmultidem survey in ten European Cities: Barcelona, Madrid, Geneva, Zurich, London, Lyon, Milan, Oslo, Stockholm and Budapest. We analyze the electoral participation of naturalised citizens in national elections, in comparison with that of the autochthonous population in their respective cities of residence. Our main goal is to isolate the effect of factors that have traditionally been found to explain the decision to vote in the general population from those other factors that are immigrant-specific, both at the individual and contextual level.

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