Ethnicity isn’t significant

• BME community

  • Complex voting patterns
  • Religious factors may play a bigger role

  Hindu and Sikh communities

  • Appear to vote in higher numbers for the Conservatives
• Concentration of BME voters in lower-paid jobs

  • Support for Labour owes more to economic and class factors than to ethnicity
• Many Asian Hindu voters have become wealthier over time


  • Bias towards the Tories