The South Asian presence in British electoral politics

In June 1987, the three majorrparties fielded twenty Britons of South Asian origins as candidates for elections to the House of Commons and one of them was elected to become the first South Asian Briton (SAB) to sit in the House since World War II. Using interview data, voting figures, and studies of past elections, this article analyses the 1987 elections to learn about each major political party's commitment to sending a SAB to the House; the electorate's willingness to elect a SAB; the South Asian British community's response to electoral politics in general and SAB prospective parliamentary candidates in particular; and the extent to which race played any role in the election

Democracy · Economic history · Electoral politics · Ethnology · General election · House of Commons · House of Representatives · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · South asia · Voting · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · History · Law · Public Administration · South Asian Studies and Conflicts · South Asian Studies and Diaspora

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