Sentences with phrase «ethnic minority candidates for»

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His recent advocacy of selection procedeures for the next round of Assembly Elections that would see women and ethnic minority candidates get preferential treatment underlined his Cameroonian credentials.

(A recent study there is a small penalty effect for a minority ethnic candidate when first standing, which disappears when seeking re-election).

Mrs Hodge was candid in her assessment of Labour's three black or minority ethnic potential candidates for mayor.

Delegates in Brighton voted overwhelmingly to back a motion put by the Lib Dem leadership for extra funds to support ethnic minority and female candidates, and to consider diversity when deciding which seats to target in an election.

... or from an ethnic minority Two candidates from an ethnic minority have been selected for safe Tory seats - Priti Patel and Helen Grant - with another ten hoping to gain seats currently held by Labour or the Liberal Democrats.

There will be no black and minority ethnic candidates in the contest to be leader or deputy leader of the Labour party after the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow, Rushanara Ali, pulled out at the last minute.

Amin was the first ethnic minority candidate to be chosen to fight May's election for the Tories, in the key battleground of Dudley North, which has a Labour majority of 649.

Amin was the first ethnic minority candidate to be chosen for this year's poll, and has been pictured alongside Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne and the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.

No previous leader of the Conservatives has done as much, for example, to bust open the selection of Parliamentary candidates to include more women (now over a third) and more black and minority ethnic candidates.

It was, relatively, a good night for black and minority ethnic candidates: the number of African, Caribbean and Asian MPs has nearly doubled — if only from 14 to 26.

«The establishment of a priority list of candidates for target seats, with specific emphasis on getting more women and people from ethnic minorities into winnable positions.

Ph.D. candidates who belong to underrepresented minority (URM) ethnic groups are about half as likely to submit research for publication as their non-URM male counterparts.

Even fewer interventions are tailored for racial and ethnic minorities, and not one intervention has been evaluated with sexual - and gender - minority people,» said Robert Coulter, M.P.H., a doctoral candidate in Pitt Public Health's Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences and lead author of both studies.

The latest silk round saw a record number of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) lawyers appointed as QCs, with success rates for BAME candidates rising on last year and bettering the equivalent rate for white applicants.

Proposed measures for the Bill, which is expected to be published in October, would allow employers to discriminate in favour of female or ethnic minority job candidates and ban contractual prohibitions on staff discussing pay with each other.