With populist, illiberal and authoritarian alternatives on the rise, liberal democracy faces many challenges. Commitments to democracy, although widely spread among the citizens, are frequently combined with anti-liberal notions of democracy and can sometimes become a bargaining chip in the trade-off for implementation of preferred policy on a salient issue. Against this background, in a conjoint design fielded in seven European countries, we explore the impact on vote choice of populist, illiberal and authoritarian alternatives to liberal democracy on three basic dimensions: civil liberties, rule of law, and free and fair elections. Our findings show that voters opposed to immigration are willing to support parties that share their anti-immigration stances regardless of party positions on democracy, particularly regarding the rule of law. However, when it comes to civil liberties and free and fair election, voters tend to support populist alternatives to liberal democracy to a greater degree than the illiberal and authoritarian ones.