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- Archive 2019
- 2015 Elections: 11 new BME MP’s make history
- 70th Anniversary of the Partition of India
- Black Church Manifesto Questionnaire
- Brett Bailey: Exhibit B
- Briefing Paper: Ethnic Minorities in Politics and Public Life
- Civil Rights Leader Ratna Lachman dies
- ELLE Magazine: Young, Gifted, and Black
- External Jobs
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- Gary Younge Book Sale
- George Osborne's budget increases racial disadvantage
- Goldsmiths Students' Union External Trustee
- Iqbal Wahhab OBE empowers Togo prisoners
- Job Vacancy: Head of Campaigns and Communications
- Media and Public Relations Officer for Jean Lambert MEP (full-time)
- Number 10 statement - race disparity unit
- Pathway to Success 2022
- Please donate £10 or more
- Rashan Charles had no Illegal Drugs
- Serena Williams: Black women should demand equal pay
- Thank you for your donation
- The Colour of Power 2021
- The Power of Poetry
- The UK election voter registration countdown begins now
- Volunteering roles at Community Alliance Lewisham (CAL)
Black vote can decide 2015 general election
A Ground-breaking research undertaken by Operation Black Vote – The Power of the Black Vote in 2015 - shows the BME electorate could decide over 160 Westminster seats in the 2015 General Election.
Using the recent 2011 census, researchers looked at the BME electorate in all England and Wales seats and found 168 marginal seats where BME voters outnumber the majority of the sitting MP. The 168 constituencies are in both urban and suburban areas. It proves that the BME have never more powerful.
Power is shifting with more marginal seats and more BME voters right across the geographical map. Political parties must wake up and realise could lose without the BME vote, and as such must devise policies to tackle persistent race inequalities. Click here to download 'The Power of the Black Vote in 2015' (PDF)