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These are lists of people who belong to non-European ethnic minorities and have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Parliament, and other British devolved bodies, as well as members of the non-elected House of Lords.
In 2001, Muhammad Anwar of Warwick University wrote a paper titled "The participation of ethnic minorities in British politics" that was published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2001) that in part examined the representation of ethnic minorities at national levels of the British political system. In a chapter in the edited book Race and British Electoral Politics (Routledge, 1998), Andrew Geddes, now Professor of Politics at University of Sheffield, explored the question of "what factors contribute to low levels of ethnic minority representation in the House of Commons".
A research briefing published by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom Library in 2023 notes that:
There is no official list of the religious or ethnic background of Members of Parliament. MPs are not required to declare this information and we therefore rely on external sources and any records of self-identification by MPs. Differing understandings of and attitudes towards ethnicity mean it is difficult to be certain about when the first MP from a minority ethnic background entered Parliament and how many MPs from minority ethnic backgrounds there have been since.
According to a research paper from House of Commons Library, published in 2020, the first ethnic minority MP was elected in 1767 – excluding Jews, who a House of Commons Library briefing paper states generally considered themselves to be a religious rather than an ethnic minority in the 18th/19th century. This was James Townsend, a Whig MP who was of one-eighth African ancestry and who later went on to become Mayor of London in 1772.
Following the election of Anas Sarwar as Scottish Labour Party leader in February 2021, he was described as the first person from an ethnic minority to lead a major British political party, which led to debate about why Jewish party leaders had been excluded from this comparison. Stephen Bush, the political editor of the New Statesman, wrote that "As far as British law is concerned, the answer is open-and-shut: we count as both an ethnic and a religious grouping for the purpose of equalities and employment law." He stated: "Whether Benjamin Disraeli would feel today that he were an ethnic-minority Briton is unknowable: but we can say with copper-bottomed certainty that he and other ethnically-Jewish Britons faced what we would now recognise as workplace discrimination in addition to the open dissemination of racist tropes about Disraeli and his family by his political opponents." The House of Commons Library briefing paper notes that the first practising Jew to sit in the Commons was Lionel de Rothschild, who was first elected in 1847 but who refused to take the Christian oath that MPs are required to swear. He took his seat once the rules had been changed, allowing him to swear on the Old Testament.
At the 2001 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom had twelve ethnic minority Members of Parliament (excluding Jews), and after the 2005 general election; that number increased to fifteen. With the 2010 general election, the Parliament of the United Kingdom reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs increased by nearly three-quarters, to a total of 26. The first three Muslim female MPs were elected. All ethnic minority MPs were either Labour (15) or Conservative (11). In October 2013, the UK Parliament reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs stood at 27, or 4.2% of the total.
After the 2015 general election, 41 MPs from an ethnic minority background were elected to Parliament. 25 of the previous 27 ethnic minority MPs retained their seats and were joined by 16 new ethnic minority MPs. 23 were from the Labour Party, 17 of them were Conservatives and one from the SNP. In the 2017 general election, 52 ethnic minority MPs were elected, including 32 Labour MPs, 19 Conservatives and one Liberal Democrat, according to think tank British Future and the House of Commons Library. In the 2019 general election, this figure rose to 66, with 23 Conservative, 41 Labour and two Liberal Democrat non-white MPs. After the 2024 general election, the House of Commons had 90 ethnic minority MPs, including 66 from the Labour Party, 15 Conservatives, five Liberal Democrats and four independent MPs.
Based on data from unofficial sources including Operation Black Vote, the House of Commons Library estimated in a research briefing published in September 2022 that there were 55 ethnic minority members of the House of Lords as of September 2022. Of these, 11 were affiliated with the Labour Party, 16 were crossbenchers, 16 were Conservatives, six were Liberal Democrats, and six were unaffiliated.
House of Commons
Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom in the House of Commons
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
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Rishi Sunak | Richmond (Yorks) | Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | 2022 | British Indian | |
Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
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Kemi Badenoch | North West Essex | Leader of the Opposition | 2024 | Black British | |
Members of the Cabinet in the House of Commons
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Ministers in the House of Commons
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Speaker of the House of Commons
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
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Douglas Clifton Brown | Hexham | Speaker of the House of Commons | 1943 | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |
Chairman of Ways and Means
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
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| Conservative |
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Douglas Clifton Brown | Hexham | Chairman of Ways and Means | 1939 | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |
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Nus Ghani | Sussex Weald | Chairman of Ways and Means | 2024 | British Pakistani | |
Members of Parliament
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House of Lords
Members of the Cabinet in the House of Lords
| Party | Portrait | Name | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
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| Labour | 
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Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos | Secretary of State for International Development | 2003 | Black British | |
| Labour | 
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Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland | Attorney General for England and Wales (attending Cabinet) | 2007 | Black British | |
| Conservative | 
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Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi | Minister without Portfolio (attending Cabinet) | 2010 | British Pakistani | |
Ministers in the House of Lords
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Members of the House of Lords
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European Parliament
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Greater London Authority
Mayors of London
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason for tenure ending | Ethnicity | |
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Boris Johnson | Mayor of London | 2008 | 2016 | Retired | British Turkish/White British (Mixed) | |
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Sadiq Khan | Mayor of London | 2016 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
Deputy Mayors of London
| Party | Portrait | Name | Role | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | Ray Lewis | Deputy Mayor for Young People | 2008 | Black British | ||
| Conservative | Munira Mirza | Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture | 2012 | British Pakistani | ||
| Labour | Rajesh Agarwal | Deputy Mayor for Business | 2016 | British Indian | ||
| Labour | Shirley Rodrigues | Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy | 2016 | British Indian | ||
| Labour | Debbie Weekes-Bernard | Deputy Mayor for Communities and Social Justice | 2018 | Black British | ||
| Labour | Mete Coban | Deputy Mayor for Environment and Energy | 2024 | British Turkish | ||
London Assembly
Chairs of the London Assembly
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | Trevor Phillips | London-wide | Chair of the London Assembly | 2002 | Black British | ||
| Labour Co-op | Jennette Arnold | London-wide | Chair of the London Assembly | 2008 | Black British | ||
| Labour | Navin Shah | Brent and Harrow | Chair of the London Assembly | 2020 | British Indian | ||
| Labour | Onkar Sahota | Ealing and Hillingdon | Chair of the London Assembly | 2022 | British Indian | ||
London Assembly Members
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Scottish Parliament
First Ministers of Scotland
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
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Humza Yousaf | Glasgow | First Minister of Scotland | 2023 | British Pakistani | |
Members of the Scottish Cabinet in the Scottish Parliament
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | 
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Humza Yousaf | Glasgow | Cabinet Secretary for Justice | 2018 | British Pakistani | |
Scottish Government Junior Ministers in the Scottish Parliament
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | 
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Humza Yousaf | Glasgow | Minister for External Affairs and International Development | 2012 | British Pakistani | |
| SNP | 
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Kaukab Stewart | Glasgow Kelvin | Minister for Culture, Europe and International Development | 2024 | British Pakistani | |
Members of the Scottish Parliament
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason for tenure ending | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SNP | 
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Bashir Ahmad | Glasgow | 2007 | 2009 | Died in office | British Pakistani | |
| Labour | 
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Hanzala Malik | Glasgow | 2011 | 2016 | Defeated | British Pakistani/White British (Mixed) | |
| SNP | 
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Humza Yousaf | Glasgow | 2011 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
| Labour | 
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Anas Sarwar | Glasgow | 2016 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
| Labour | 
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Foysol Choudhury | Lothian | 2021 | Serving | British Bangladeshi | ||
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Pam Gosal | West Scotland | 2021 | Serving | British Indian | ||
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Sandesh Gulhane | Glasgow | 2021 | Serving | British Indian | ||
| SNP | 
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Kaukab Stewart | Glasgow | 2021 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
Senedd
First Ministers of Wales
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Vaughan Gething | Cardiff South and Penarth | First Minister of Wales | 2024 | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |
Members of the Welsh Government Cabinet in the Senedd
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 
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Vaughan Gething | Cardiff South and Penarth | Minister for Health and Social Services | 2016 | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |
Welsh Government Junior Ministers in the Senedd
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | First office held | Year appointed | Ethnicity | |
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| Labour |
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Vaughan Gething | Cardiff South and Penarth | Deputy Minister for Tackling Poverty | 2013 | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |
Members of the Senedd
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason for tenure ending | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Mohammad Asghar | South Wales East | 2007 | 2009 (Crossed the floor in 2009) | Left Plaid Cymru, joined Conservative Party | British Pakistani | |
| Conservative | South Wales East | 2009 | 2020 | Died in office | ||||
| Labour | 
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Vaughan Gething | Cardiff South and Penarth | 2011 | Serving | Black British/White British (Mixed) | ||
| Conservative | 
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Altaf Hussain | South Wales West | 2015 | 2016 | Defeated | British Indian | |
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Natasha Asghar | South Wales East | 2021 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
Northern Ireland Assembly
Members of the Northern Ireland Assembly
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason for tenure ending | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance | 
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Anna Lo | Belfast South | 2007 | 2016 | Retired | British Chinese Irish Chinese | |
Police and Crime Commissioners
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason for tenure ending | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour | 
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Hardyal Dhindsa | Derbyshire | 2016 | 2021 | Defeated | British Indian | |
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Festus Akinbusoye | Bedfordshire | 2021 | 2024 | Defeated | Black British | |
| Labour | Gary Godden | Nottinghamshire | 2024 | Serving | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |||
| Labour | Nicolle Ndiweni | Derbyshire | 2024 | Serving | Black British | |||
| Labour | Emma Wools | South Wales | 2024 | Serving | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |||
Combined authorities and combined county authorities
Deputy mayors for policing and crime
| Party | Portrait | Name | Role | Year appointed | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labour Co-op | Alison Lowe | Deputy Mayor of West Yorkshire for Policing and Crime | 2021 | ||
Local authorities
Directly elected mayors
| Party | Portrait | Name | Constituency | Year elected | Year left | Reason for tenure ending | Ethnicity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Lutfur Rahman | Mayor of Tower Hamlets | 2010 | 2014 (Crossed the floor in 2014) | Created Tower Hamlets First | British Bangladeshi | |
| Tower Hamlets First | 2014 | 2015 | Election court found corrupt or illegal practices and removed from office | |||||
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Marvin Rees | Mayor of Bristol | 2016 | 2024 | Office abolished | Black British/White British (Mixed) | |
| Labour |
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Rokhsana Fiaz | Mayor of Newham | 2018 | Serving | British Pakistani | ||
| Labour | Joanne Anderson | Mayor of Liverpool | 2021 | 2023 | Office abolished | Black British | ||
| Labour | Brenda Dacres | Mayor of Lewisham | 2024 | Serving | Black British | |||
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