In analyzing the determinants of conventional political participation, this article highlights the effect of the economic vote and assesses its effect on nonconventional political participation. Using the UNDP-Human Development 2015 poll in Chile, the study assesses the effect of the economic vote —in its sociotropic, egotropic, retrospective and prospective dimensions— on non-conventional participation. The article uses factor analysis as a methodological mechanism to group non-conventional participation into three types, individual, collective, and online. Using OLS and logistic regressions, the article reports that non-conventional participation increases with better retrospective egotropic perception, decreases with better socio-tropic retrospective perception and is not affected by ego and sociotropic prospective perceptions. In conclusion, retrospective perceptions explain non-conventional participation, positively in the case of egotropic perceptions and negatively in case of socio-tropic perceptions. When people believe they have fared well, they participate more, but when they believe the country has fared well, they participate less.