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- Title
Do Ethnic Minority Candidates Mobilise Ethnic Minority Voters? Evidence from the 2010 UK General Election.
- Authors
Martin, Nicole S.
- Abstract
This article investigates whether ethnic minority individuals are more likely to vote when they can vote for a candidate who shares their ethnic background. It uses individual-level data from the 2010 Ethnic Minority British Election Study and finds that Pakistani individuals were more likely to vote when they had the opportunity to vote for a Pakistani candidate from the Labour party, and that this effect is due to people in their social network attempting to convince them how to vote. The same is true of Muslim voters and Muslim candidates. I interpret these results as evidence that biraderi is being used to mobilise these voters along ethnic lines. Muslim candidates from the Labour party are associated with lower turnout among Sikhs. However, there were no candidate mobilisation effects among Indians, black Caribbeans or black Africans, or for Conservative or Liberal Democrat candidates.
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; POLITICAL participation of minorities; BRITISH politics &; government; VOTERS; MUSLIMS; ETHNIC groups &; politics
- Publication
Parliamentary Affairs, 2016, Vol 69, Issue 1, p159
- ISSN
0031-2290
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pa/gsv014