Candidate ethnicity and vote choice in Britain

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...

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Main Authors: Fisher, S, Heath, A, Sanders, D, Sobolewska, M
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2015