As with the other directions, the terms can be used as relative terms, to describe locations along the left-right axis.

Time is taken to be the vertical axis, and the two spacial dimensions are the forward-backwards and left-right axes.

Political scientists have observed that the ideologies of political parties can be mapped along a single left-right axis.

They are aiming for these parties to be located near the political center, rather than along the left-right axis that characterized Japanese politics during the cold war.

The EU membership crosses the traditional left-right axis in Norwegian politics.

In terms of the left-right axis, the Breton Party is considered to be centrist.

There has been considerable criticism of the reduction of politics to a simple left-right axis.

"I think he comes at things in a way that is perpendicular to the usual left-right axis."

Political scientists have frequently noted that a single left-right axis is insufficient for describing the existing variation in political beliefs, and often include other axes.

One commonality though is that they are more right-wing than other political parties on the left-right axis.