race/ethnicity

Question 1

what demographic of people are likely to vote labour/tory regarding ethnicity?
what is ethnicity largely related to?

Answer 1

• labour voters = muslim, black people
• tory = Sikh, hindu
• largely linked to class + income
• hindu, sikh = more established = more prospered = middle class = tory

Question 2

how many seats did may loose in 2017 by failing to appeal to the ethnic minority vote and what would this have resulted in

Answer 2

• 28 seats in 2017
• would’ve resulted in comfortable majority of 46

Question 3

what % of BAME voted tory in 2017 and an example of a constituency

Answer 3

• 21%
• decisive in areas with high BAME population
• kensington = previously tory but lost to labour by just 20 votes in 2017, if truss had appealed to BAME voters she could have won this seat

Question 4

why do the CP have no option but to pursue the BAME vote

Answer 4

• majority of the BAME population are young so the population is only likely to grow making BAME voters taking up more and more % of the electorate

Question 5

why are BAME voters more likely to vote labour

Answer 5

• less related to ethnicity more to social class, region, employment
• historically immigrants from BAME backgrounds were employed in industrial roles in cities which already connects them to labour and encouraged labour to pick up more policies to protect its supporters
• tory rep. in 1960s/70s = anti-immigration, nationalist