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Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain

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  • Fisher, Stephen D.
  • Heath, Anthony F.
  • Sanders, David
  • Sobolewska, Maria

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This article develops and tests a set of theoretical mechanisms by which candidate ethnicity may have affected the party vote choice of both white British and ethnic minority voters in the 2010 British general election. Ethnic minority candidates suffered an average electoral penalty of about 4 per cent of the three-party vote from whites, mostly because those with anti-immigrant feelings were less willing to vote for Muslims. Ethnic minority voter responses to candidate ethnicity differed by ethnic group. There were no significant effects for non-Muslim Indian and black voters, while Pakistani candidates benefited from an 8-point average electoral bonus from Pakistani voters.

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  • Fisher, Stephen D. & Heath, Anthony F. & Sanders, David & Sobolewska, Maria, 2015. "Candidate Ethnicity and Vote Choice in Britain," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 45(4), pages 883-905, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:45:y:2015:i:04:p:883-905_00
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    1. Floris Vermeulen & Maria Kranendonk & Laure Michon, 2020. "Immigrant concentration at the neighbourhood level and bloc voting: The case of Amsterdam," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 57(4), pages 766-788, March.
    2. Shikhar Singh, 2015. "Candidate Caste Effects in Uttar Pradesh Elections," Studies in Indian Politics, , vol. 3(2), pages 179-197, December.
    3. Einat Jan, 2023. "The political influence of an interest group: A comparative study on the Muslim minority in the United States and Britain," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-11, December.
    4. Katjana Gattermann & Franziska Marquart, 2020. "Do Spitzenkandidaten really make a difference? An experiment on the effectiveness of personalized European Parliament election campaigns," European Union Politics, , vol. 21(4), pages 612-633, December.

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