To what extent does voting by ethnic minorities reflect the voting behaviour of the whole electorate?
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To what extent does voting by ethnic minorities reflect the voting behaviour of the whole electorate? In present day there are currently 12 ethnic minority MP's in parliament, all of who belong to the Labour party. Ethnic minority groups tend to be part of the immigrant population and so are more likely to belong to the working class and so have a stronger party identification with labour. This can be shown in the 1997 general election in which 70% of Asian voters and 86% of Black voters voted for labour. The difference in the two could be to do with the fact that Asian people in particular have been very successful in Britain with setting up businesses so in the 1997 elections the 25% of Asian voters that voted for conservative didn't feel the effect of Black Wednesday as significantly as the rest of the electorate. In the opinion poll of...


