Sentences with phrase «from ethnic minority voters»

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«It's definitely true that in many ways, white evangelicals and black Protestants or black evangelicals, or evangelicals from other racial and ethnic minorities have a lot in common,» the Pew Research Center's associate director, Greg Smith, told NPR for its exploration of the true number of evangelical voters.

Put minority voters together, so they have a better chance of getting a representative from the same ethnic or racial background.

This analysis confirms what we might have anticipated from the evidence of the polls — local authorities appear to contain more Leave voters if there was a large vote for UKIP there in the 2014 European elections, if there was a small vote for parties of the «left» (Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish and Welsh Nationalists and Greens) on the same occasion, and in places with relatively low proportions of graduates, young people, and people from an ethnic minority background.

Electorally, Labour also stands to lose most from pursuing such a xenophobic line as it will alienate ethnic minority voters who are a major component of the most deprived sections of the working class, and are a core constituency of its support in most metropolitan areas.

The Conservatives» failure to win over ethnic minority voters has come under fire from Tory activists.

He easily eclipsed Ken Clarke, the Tory grandee who had turned up to lend his support, suggesting that the Tory leader's big tent approach to candidate selection — particularly in a constituency where 62 per cent of voters are from ethnic minorities — may pay dividends.»

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Labour certainly has to find ways of reaching out to and reconnecting with the so - called «left behind» Ukip voters but without - to borrow a line from activist and commentator Ellie Mae O'Hagan - throwing immigrants - and, for that matter, British - born ethnic minorities - under the bus.

But its evident both from the thrust of Lord Ashcroft's report and from polling commissioned by the Runnymede Trust that Indian - origin voters - especially Hindus - are more receptive to the Conservatives than other ethnic and religious minorities.

If Corbyn's appeal to young voters is mostly restricted to ethnic minorities and university students / graduates, that won't take him very far in Walsall North - especially with 8,000 Ukip voters from 2015 likely to lean towards the Tories.

Analysis of ethnic minority voters on the YouGov panel suggests that the degree of Conservative support among ethnic minority voters, and the shift away from Labour and towards the Conservatives, may not be as large as Survation online data suggests.

He said: «Forcing voters at election time to prove their identity at polling stations by producing official documents would have a disproportionate impact on people from black and ethnic minority communities.

In other developments today, a leaked letter from the equalities and human rights watchdog warns new rules which require voters to prove their identities at the ballot box could disenfranchise ethnic minority communities.