List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom
The list of people who belong to ethnic minorities who have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Union, and other British devolved assemblies and also Members of the non-elected House of Lords.
The first ethnic minority MP was elected in 1892.[1] In 2001, Professor Muhammad Anwar of Warwick University wrote a paper entitled "The participation of ethnic minorities in British politics" that was published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2001) that in part examined the representation of ethnic minorities at national levels of the British political system.[2] In Race And British Electoral Politics (Routledge, 2004), Andrew Geddes, Professor of Politics at University of Sheffield, explored the question of "what factors contribute to low levels of ethnic minority representation in the House of Commons".[3]
After the 2001 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom had 12 ethnic minority Members, and after the 2005 general election the number increased to 15.[4] With the 2010 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs increased by nearly three-quarters, to a total of 26.[5] The first three Muslim female MPs were elected.[5] All ethnic minority MPs were either Labour (15) or Conservative (11).[5] In October 2013, the UK Parliament reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs stood at 27, 4.2% of the total.[6]
After the 2015 general election 41 ethnic minority MPs were elected into Parliament. 25 of the previous 27 ethnic minority MPs retained their seats and were joined by 16 new ethnic minority MPs.[7]
Contents
- 1 List of ethnic minority Members of Parliament
- 2 List of ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords
- 3 List of ethnic minority Members of the European Parliament
- 4 List of ethnic minority London Assembly Members
- 5 List of ethnic minority Scottish Parliament Members
- 6 List of ethnic minority Welsh Assembly Members
- 7 List of ethnic minority Northern Irish Assembly Members
- 8 Notes
List of ethnic minority Members of Parliament
List of ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords
List of ethnic minority Members of the European Parliament
List of ethnic minority London Assembly Members
Party | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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Labour | Jennette Arnold[6] | North East | 2000 | Serving | Afro-Caribbean | ||
Labour | Murad Qureshi[6] | London-wide | 2004 | 2016 | Defeated | British Bangladeshi | |
Conservative | James Cleverly[6] | Bexley and Bromley | 2008 | 2016 | Retired | British Sierra Leonean/White British (Mixed Race) | |
Labour | Navin Shah[6] | Brent and Harrow | 2008 | Serving | British Indian | ||
Labour | Onkar Sahota[6] | Ealing and Hillingdon | 2012 | Serving | British Indian | ||
Conservative | Kemi Badenoch[6] | London-wide | 2015 | Serving | British Nigerian | ||
Conservative | Shaun Bailey[6] | London-wide | 2016 | Serving | Afro-Caribbean | ||
Labour | Unmesh Desai[6] | City and East | 2016 | Serving | British Indian | ||
Labour | Florence Eshalomi[6] | Lambeth and Southwark | 2016 | Serving | British Nigerian | ||
UKIP | David Kurten[6] | London-wide | 2016 | Serving | Afro-Caribbean |
List of ethnic minority Scottish Parliament Members
Party | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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SNP | Bashir Ahmad[21] | Glasgow | 2007 | 2009 | Died | British Pakistani | |
SNP | Humza Yousaf[22] | Glasgow | 2011 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
Labour | Hanzala Malik[23] | Glasgow | 2011 | 2016 | Defeated | British Pakistani/White British (Mixed Race) | |
Labour | Anas Sarwar[24] | Glasgow | 2016 | Serving | British Pakistani |
List of ethnic minority Welsh Assembly Members
Party | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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Plaid Cymru | Mohammad Asghar[25] | South Wales East | 2007 | 2009 (Crossed the floor in 2009) | Left Plaid Cymru, joined Conservative Party | ||
Conservative | South Wales East | 2009 | Serving | British Pakistani | |||
Labour | Vaughan Gething[25] | Cardiff South and Penarth | 2011 | Serving | British Zambian/White British (Mixed Race) | ||
Conservative | Altaf Hussain | South Wales West | 2015 | 2016 | Defeated | British Indian |
List of ethnic minority Northern Irish Assembly Members
Party | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason | Ethnicity | |
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Alliance | Anna Lo[26] | Belfast South | 2007 | 2016 | Retired | Cantonese-Chinese |
Notes
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- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Dr Justin Fisher (Brunel University), Prof. Edward Fieldhouse (University of Manchester), Prof. David Denver (Lancaster University), Dr Andrew Russell (University of Manchester), Dr David Cutts (University of Manchester) (25 August 2005). "The General Election 2005 Campaign Analysis; Produced for the Electoral Commission", Electoral Commission.
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- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 Richard Cracknell; Social and General Statistics Section (5 January 2012). "Ethnic Minorities in Politics, Government and Public Life", House of Commons of the United Kingdom; Library
- ↑ He was born in England son of a Goan Indian whose family had converted from Hinduism.
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- ↑ Suspended for 16 months due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
- ↑ Suspended after being jailed for a fatal road crash in 2007 and expelled 2009 for racial remarks
- ↑ Suspended for eight months due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
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