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Revision as of 11:01, 13 June 2015

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.

List of ethnic minority Members of Parliament

Party Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Ethnicity
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" | Tory Robert Jenkinson, Lord Hawkesbury Appleby & Rye 1790 1803 Resigned - elevated to House of Lords Anglo-Indian[1]
style="background-color: Template:Whig (British political party)/meta/color | Whig David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre Sudbury 1841 1842 Unseated by petition Anglo-Indian
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal Dadabhai Naoroji Finsbury Central 1892 1895 Defeated British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sir Mancherjee Bhownagree Bethnal Green North East 1895 1906 Defeated British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Unionist Party/meta/color" | Liberal Unionist Sir Edward Sassoon, 2nd Baronet Hythe 1899 1912 Died British Indian/British Iraqis[2]
style="background-color: Template:Communist Party of Great Britain/meta/color" | Communist Shapurji Saklatvala Battersea North 1922 & 1924 1923 & 1929 Defeated & Defeated British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sir Philip Sassoon, 3rd Baronet Hythe 1912 1939 Died British Indian/British Iraqis[3]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Richard Hickmet Glanford and Scunthorpe 1983 1987 Defeated British Turkish/White British
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Jonathan Sayeed Bristol East & Mid Bedfordshire 1983 & 1997 1992 & 2005 Defeated & Retired Anglo-Indian [4]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Diane Abbott Hackney North and Stoke Newington 1987 Serving British Jamaican
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Paul Boateng Brent South 1987 2005 Retired British Ghanaians
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Bernie Grant Tottenham 1987 2000 Died British Guyanese
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Keith Vaz Leicester East 1987 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Ashok Kumar Langbaurgh & Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland 1991 & 1997 1992 & 2010 Defeated & Died British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sebastian Coe Falmouth and Camborne 1992 1997 Defeated Anglo-Indian[5]
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Nirj Deva Brentford and Isleworth 1992 1997 Defeated British Sri Lankans
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Iain Duncan Smith Chingford and Woodford Green 1992 Serving White British/Japanese British[6]
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Piara Singh Khabra Ealing Southall 1992 2007 Died British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Oona King Bethnal Green & Bow 1997 2005 Defeated African American/Jewish White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Mohammad Sarwar Glasgow Central 1997 2010 Retired British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Marsha Singh Bradford West 1997 2012 Resigned - Ill Health British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Mark Hendrick Preston 2000 Serving British Somalian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour David Lammy Tottenham 2000 Serving British Guyanese
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Parmjit Singh Dhanda Gloucester 2001 2010 Defeated British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Boris Johnson Henley & Uxbridge and South Ruislip 2001 & 2015 2008 Resigned to become Mayor of London & Serving British Turkish/White British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Khalid Mahmood Birmingham Perry Barr 2001 Serving British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Parmjit Singh Gill Leicester South 2004 2005 Defeated British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Adam Afriyie Windsor 2005 Serving British Ghanaians/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Dawn Butler Brent South & Brent Central 2005 & 2015 2010 Defeated & Serving British Jamaican
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Sadiq Khan Tooting 2005 Serving British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Shahid Malik Dewsbury 2005 2010 Defeated British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Shailesh Vara North West Cambridgeshire 2005 Serving Ugandan British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Virendra Sharma Ealing Southall 2007 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Rushanara Ali Bethnal Green and Bow 2010 Serving British Bangladeshi
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Rehman Chishti Gillingham and Rainham 2010 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Helen Grant Maidstone and The Weald 2010 Serving British Nigerian/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sam Gyimah East Surrey 2010 Serving British Ghanaians
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sajid Javid Bromsgrove 2010 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Kwasi Kwarteng Spelthorne 2010 Serving British Ghanaians
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Jo Johnson Orpington 2010 Serving British Turkish/White British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Shabana Mahmood Birmingham Ladywood 2010 Serving British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Lisa Nandy Wigan 2010 Serving British Pakistanis/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Chi Onwurah Newcastle upon Tyne Central 2010 Serving British Nigerian/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Priti Patel Witham 2010 Serving Ugandan British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Yasmin Qureshi Bolton South East 2010 Serving British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Anas Sarwar Glasgow Central 2010 2015 Defeated British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Alok Sharma Reading West 2010 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Chuka Umunna Streatham 2010 Serving British Nigerian/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Paul Uppal Wolverhampton South West 2010 2015 Defeated British Kenyan
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Valerie Vaz Walsall South 2010 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Nadhim Zahawi Stratford-on-Avon 2010 Serving British Iraqis
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Seema Malhotra Feltham and Heston 2011 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative James Cleverly Braintree 2015 Serving British Sierra Leonean/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Thangam Debbonaire Bristol West 2015 Serving British Indian/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Suella Fernandes Fareham 2015 Serving British Kenyan/British Mauritian (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Nusrat Ghani Wealden 2015 Serving British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Imran Hussain Bradford East 2015 Serving British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Rupa Huq Ealing Central and Acton 2015 Serving British Bangladeshi
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Ranil Jayawardena North East Hampshire 2015 Serving British Sri Lankans
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Seema Kennedy South Ribble 2015 Serving British Iranian/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Clive Lewis Norwich South 2015 Serving British Grenadian/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Alan Mak Havant 2015 Serving British Chinese
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Kate Osamor Edmonton 2015 Serving British Nigerian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Naz Shah Bradford West 2015 Serving British Pakistanis
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Scottish National Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh Ochil and South Perthshire 2015 Serving British Pakistanis/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Tulip Siddiq Hampstead and Kilburn 2015 Serving British Bangladeshi
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Rishi Sunak Richmond 2015 Serving British Indian

List of ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords

Party Name Year entered Year left Reason Ethnicity
style="background-color: Template:Tory (British political party)/meta/color" | Tory Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool 1803 1828 Died Anglo-Indian[7]
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Party (UK)/meta/color" | Liberal Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha 1919 1928 Died British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Learie Constantine, Baron Constantine 1969 1971 Died British Trinidadian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead 1975 1994 Died British Grenadian
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis 1977 2013 Died Indian British
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Party Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather 1990 2008 (Crossed the floor in 2008) Resigned from the Conservative Party, now a Crossbencher
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench 2008 Serving Indian British
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn 1990 Serving Chinese British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai 1991 Serving Indian British
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi 1996 Serving British Iraqis
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Party John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick 1996 2011 (Crossed the floor in 2011) Resigned from the Conservative Party, now a Crossbencher[8]
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench 2011 Serving British Jamaican
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party Swraj Paul, Baron Paul 1996 2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010) Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher[9]
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench 2010 Serving Indian British
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri 1997 Serving Indian British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos 1997 Serving British Guyanese
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal 1997 Serving British Dominican
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia 1997 Serving Indian British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Waheed Alli, Baron Alli 1998 Serving British Guyanese
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin 1998 2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010) Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher[10]
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench 2010 Serving British Bangladeshi
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed 1998 2009 (Crossed the floor in 2009) Expelled from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher[11]
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench 2007 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich 1999 2013 Died British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar 1999 Serving British Kenyan
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Narendra Patel, Baron Patel 1999 Serving British Tanzanian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids 1999 Serving British Grenadian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe 2000 Serving Anglo-Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn 2000 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh 2000 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Herman Ouseley, Baron Ouseley 2001 Serving British Guyanese
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale 2001 Serving British Nigerian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Party Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia 2001 2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010) Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher[12]
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench 2010 Serving British Tanzanian
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Michael Chan, Baron Chan 2001 2006 Died British Chinese
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya 2004 Serving British Bangladeshi
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Diljit Rana, Baron Rana 2004 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey 2004 Serving British Nigerian
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine 2004 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick 2005 Serving Black British
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma 2006 Serving Indian British
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh 2006 Serving British Kenyan
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria 2006 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford 2006 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth 2006 Serving British Jamaican
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera 2007 Serving British Ugandan
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed 2007 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham 2007 Serving British Iraqis
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi 2007 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar 2010 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Nat Wei, Baron Wei 2010 Serving British Chinese
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece 2010 Serving British Turkish
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin 2010 Serving British Trinidadians
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng 2010 Serving British Ghanaians
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Dolar Popat, Baron Popat 2010 Serving British Ugandan
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro 2010 Serving British Ghanaians
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon 2011 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Raj Loomba, Baron Loomba 2011 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain 2011 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Gulam Noon, Baron Noon 2011 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Independent (politician)/meta/color" | Crossbench Indarjit Singh, Baron Singh of Wimbledon 2011 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor 2013 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Rumi Verjee, Baron Verjee 2013 Serving British Ugandan
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon 2013 Serving British Jamaican
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Ranbir Singh Suri, Baron Suri 2014 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Arminka Helic, Baroness Helic 2014 Serving British Bosnian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik 2014 Serving British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Members of the European Parliament

Party Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Ethnicity
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Stanley Johnson Wight & Hampshire East 1979 1984 Defeated British Turk/White British
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Mark Hendrick Central Lancashire 1994 1999 Defeated British Somalian
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Nirj Deva South East England 1999 Serving British Sri Lankans
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Bashir Khanbhai East of England 1999 2004 Retired British Tanzanian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Neena Gill West Midlands 1999 & 2014 2009 Defeated & Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Claude Moraes London 1999 Serving British Yemeni
style="background-color: Template:Liberal Democrats/meta/color" | Liberal Democrats Sajjad Karim North West England 2004 2006 (Crossed the floor in 2006) Left Liberal Democrats, joined Conservative Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative North West England 2006 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Dr Syed Kamall London 2005 Serving British Guyanese
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Marina Yannakoudakis London 2009 2014 Defeated British Turkish
style="background-color: Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | UKIP Marta Andreasen South East England 2009 2013 (Crossed the floor in 2013) Left UKIP, joined Conservative Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative South East England 2013 2014 Defeated British Argentinian
style="background-color: Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | UKIP Tim Aker East of England 2014 Serving British Turk/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | UKIP Amjad Bashir Yorkshire and the Humber 2014 2015 (Crossed the floor in 2015) Left UKIP, joined Conservative Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Yorkshire and the Humber 2015 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour M. Afzal Khan North West England 2014 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:United Kingdom Independence Party/meta/color" | UKIP Steven Woolfe North West England 2014 Serving British Nigerian/White British (Mixed Race)

List of ethnic minority London Assembly Members

Party Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Ethnicity
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Jennette Arnold North East 2000 Serving British Montserratian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Murad Qureshi London-wide 2004 Serving British Bangladeshi
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative James Cleverly Bexley and Bromley 2008 Serving British Sierra Leoneans/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Navin Shah Brent and Harrow 2008 Serving British Indian
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Onkar Sahota Ealing and Hillingdon 2012 Serving British Indian

List of ethnic minority Scottish Parliament Members

Party Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Ethnicity
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Scottish National Bashir Ahmad Glasgow 2007 2009 Died British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Scottish National Party/meta/color" | Scottish National Humza Yousaf Glasgow 2011 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Hanzala Malik Glasgow 2011 Serving British Pakistanis/White British (Mixed Race)

List of ethnic minority Welsh Assembly Members

Party Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Ethnicity
style="background-color: Template:Plaid Cymru/meta/color" | Plaid Cymru Mohammad Asghar South Wales East 2007 2009 (Crossed the floor in 2009) Left Plaid Cymru, joined Conservative Party
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative South Wales East 2009 Serving British Pakistani
style="background-color: Template:Labour Party (UK)/meta/color" | Labour Vaughan Gething Cardiff South and Penarth 2011 Serving British Zambian/White British (Mixed Race)
style="background-color: Template:Conservative Party (UK)/meta/color" | Conservative Altaf Hussain South Wales West 2015 Serving British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Northern Irish Assembly Members

Party Name Constituency Year elected Year left Reason Ethnicity
style="background-color: Template:Alliance Party of Northern Ireland/meta/color" | Alliance Anna Lo Belfast South 2007 Serving Cantonese-Chinese

Notes

  1. ^ Mother was half Indian. Jenkinson later went on to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  2. ^ Family were from Iraq and Sir Edward was born in India
  3. ^ Family were from Iraq and India
  4. ^ Father is a Punjabi Indian
  5. ^ His mother was half Indian, as her father was a Punjabi Indian whilst her mother was White
  6. ^ His maternal Great Grandmother was Japanese
  7. ^ Mother was half Indian. Jenkinson later went on to become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
  8. ^ Suspended till 2012 for having been jailed due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
  9. ^ Suspended for four months due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
  10. ^ Suspended for 16 months due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal
  11. ^ Suspended after being jailed for a fatal road crash in 2007 and expelled 2009 for racial remarks
  12. ^ Suspended for eight months due to United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal

References

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