List of ethnic minority politicians in the United Kingdom

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The list of people who belong to ethnic minorities who have been elected as Members of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, European Union, and other British devolved assemblies and also 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.^[1] 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".^[2]

According to a research paper from House of Commons of the United Kingdom Library, published in 2020, the first ethnic minority MP was elected in 1767^[3] - 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.^[4] This was James Townsend, a Whig MP whose mother was of African origin. Townsend later became the first Black Mayor of London in 1772.^[5]

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,^[6] which led to debate about why Jewish party leaders had been excluded from this comparison.^[7][8][9] 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."^[9] 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.^[4]

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.^[10] 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.^[11] The first three Muslim female MPs were elected.^[11] All ethnic minority MPs were either Labour (15) or Conservative (11).^[11] In October 2013, the UK Parliament reported that the number of ethnic minority MPs stood at 27, or 4.2% of the total.^[12]

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.^[13] 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^[14] and the House of Commons Library.^[4][15] In the 2019 general election, this figure rose to 65, with 22 Conservative, 41 Labour and two Liberal Democrat non-white MPs.^[16]

Based on data from unofficial sources including Operation Black Vote, the House of Commons Library estimated that there were 50 ethnic minority members of the House of Lords as of October 2020. Of these, 10 were affiliated with the Labour Party, 14 were crossbenchers, 14 were Conservatives, 6 were Liberal Democrats, and 6 were non-affiliated.^[17]

List of ethnic minority Members of the Cabinet in the House of Commons[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	First office held	Year joined	Ethnicity
	Labour		Paul Boateng[18]	Brent South	Chief Secretary to the Treasury (attending Cabinet)	2002	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Sadiq Khan[19]	Tooting	Minister of State for Transport (attending Cabinet)	2009	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Sajid Javid[20]	Bromsgrove	Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport	2013	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Priti Patel[21]	Witham	Secretary of State for International Development	2016	British Indian
	Conservative		Alok Sharma[22]	Reading West	Secretary of State for International Development	2019	British Indian
	Conservative		James Cleverly[23]	Braintree	Minister without Portfolio	2019	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Rishi Sunak[24]	Richmond (Yorks)	Chief Secretary to the Treasury (attending Cabinet)	2019	British Indian
	Conservative		Suella Braverman[25]	Fareham	Attorney General for England and Wales (attending Cabinet)	2020	British Indian
	Conservative		Kwasi Kwarteng[26]	Spelthorne	Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy	2021	Black British

List of ethnic minority Ministers in the House of Commons[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	First office held	Year joined	Ethnicity
	Labour		Paul Boateng[27]	Brent South	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Disabled People	1997	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Keith Vaz[28]	Leicester East	Minister of State for Europe	1999	British Indian
	Labour		David Lammy[29]	Tottenham	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health	2002	Black British
	Labour		Parmjit Dhanda[30]	Gloucester	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Education and Skills	2006	British Indian
	Labour		Shahid Malik[31]	Dewsbury	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for International Development	2007	British Pakistani
	Labour		Sadiq Khan[32]	Tooting	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government	2008	British Pakistani
	Labour		Dawn Butler[33]	Brent South	Minister of State for Youth Affairs	2009	Black British
	Conservative		Sajid Javid[34]	Bromsgrove	Economic Secretary to the Treasury	2012	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Helen Grant[35]	Maidstone and The Weald	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Equalities	2012	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Shailesh Vara[36]	North West Cambridgeshire	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Courts and Legal Aid	2013	British Indian
	Conservative		Priti Patel[37]	Witham	Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury	2014	British Indian
	Conservative		Sam Gyimah[38]	East Surrey	Minister for the Constitution	2014	Black British
	Conservative		Alok Sharma[39]	Reading West	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Asia and the Pacific	2016	British Indian
	Conservative		Kwasi Kwarteng[40]	Spelthorne	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	2018	Black British
	Conservative		Nadhim Zahawi[41]	Stratford-on-Avon	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families	2018	British Iraqi
	Conservative		Suella Braverman[42]	Fareham	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	2018	British Indian
	Conservative		Rishi Sunak[43]	Richmond (Yorks)	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Local Government	2018	British Indian
	Conservative		Nus Ghani[44]	Wealden	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Aviation and Maritime	2018	British Pakistani
	Conservative		James Cleverly[45]	Braintree	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union	2019	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Kemi Badenoch[46]	Saffron Walden	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Children and Families	2019	Black British
	Conservative		Seema Kennedy[47]	South Ribble	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health and Primary Care	2019	British Iranian/White Irish (Mixed)
	Conservative		Ranil Jayawardena[48]	North East Hampshire	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State International Trade	2020	British Sri Lankan
	Conservative		Alan Mak[49]	Havant	Lord Commissioner of the Treasury	2021	British Chinese

List of ethnic minority Members of Parliament[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Whig		James Townsend[50]	West Looe	1767	1774	Resigned	Black British/White British (Mixed)
				Calne	1782	1787	Died in office
	Whig		[51]	Bridport, Arundel and Leominster	1780	1796	Died in office	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		John Stewart[52]	Lymington	1832	1847	Defeated	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Whig		Alexander Raphael[53]	Carlow County	1835	1835	Unseated by petition	British Armenian
				St Albans	1847	1850	Died in office
	Whig		David Ochterlony Dyce Sombre[12][54]	Sudbury	1841	1842	Unseated by petition	Anglo-Indian
	Whig		Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke[55]	City of York	1841	1848	Committed suicide	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Liberal		Peter McLagan	Linlithgowshire	1865	1893	Resigned	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Liberal		Dadabhai Naoroji[12][54]	Finsbury Central	1892	1895	Defeated	British Indian
	Conservative		Mancherjee Bhownagree[12][54]	Bethnal Green North East	1895	1906	Defeated	British Indian
	Liberal		Ernest Soares[56]	Barnstaple	1900	1911	Resigned due to failing health	Anglo-Indian[57]
	Liberal		H. F. B. Lynch[58]	Ripon	1906	1910	Defeated	British Armenian/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Shapurji Saklatvala[12]	Battersea North	1922	1923	Defeated	British Indian
	Communist				1924	1929	Defeated
	Labour		Diane Abbott[12][59]	Hackney North and Stoke Newington	1987		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Paul Boateng[12][59]	Brent South	1987	2005	Retired	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Bernie Grant[12][59]	Tottenham	1987	2000	Died in office	Black British
	Labour		Keith Vaz[12][59]	Leicester East	1987	2019	Retired	British Indian
	Labour		Ashok Kumar[59][10]	Langbaurgh	1991	1992	Defeated	British Indian
				Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland	1997	2010	Died in office
	Conservative		Sebastian Coe[60][61][62][63]	Falmouth and Camborne	1992	1997	Defeated	Anglo-Indian
	Conservative		Nirj Deva[59]	Brentford and Isleworth	1992	1997	Defeated	British Sri Lankan
	Labour		Piara Singh Khabra[59]	Ealing Southall	1992	2007	Died in office	British Indian
	Labour		Oona King[59]	Bethnal Green & Bow	1997	2005	Defeated	African American/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Mohammad Sarwar[59]	Glasgow Central	1997	2010	Retired	British Pakistani
	Labour		Marsha Singh[59]	Bradford West	1997	2012	Resigned due to failing health	British Indian
	Labour Co-op		Mark Hendrick[4]	Preston	2000		Serving	Somali/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		David Lammy[12]	Tottenham	2000		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Parmjit Singh Dhanda[10]	Gloucester	2001	2010	Defeated	British Indian
	Labour		Khalid Mahmood[12]	Birmingham Perry Barr	2001		Serving	British Pakistani
	Liberal Democrats		Parmjit Singh Gill[12][10]	Leicester South	2004	2005	Defeated	British Indian
	Conservative		Adam Afriyie[12][10]	Windsor	2005		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Dawn Butler[4]	Brent South	2005	2010	Defeated	Black British
				Brent Central	2015		Serving
	Labour		Sadiq Khan[12]	Tooting	2005	2016	Resigned to become Mayor of London	British Pakistani
	Labour		Shahid Malik[64]	Dewsbury	2005	2010	Defeated	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Shailesh Vara[12][10]	North West Cambridgeshire	2005		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Virendra Sharma[4]	Ealing Southall	2007		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Rushanara Ali[12]	Bethnal Green and Bow	2010		Serving	British Bangladeshi
	Conservative		Rehman Chishti[12]	Gillingham and Rainham	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Helen Grant[12]	Maidstone and The Weald	2010		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Sam Gyimah[12]	East Surrey	2010	2019	Expelled from Conservatives, joined Liberal Democrats	Black British
	Liberal Democrats				2019	2019	Defeated
	Conservative		Sajid Javid[12]	Bromsgrove	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Kwasi Kwarteng[12]	Spelthorne	2010		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Shabana Mahmood[11]	Birmingham Ladywood	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Lisa Nandy[12]	Wigan	2010		Serving	Anglo-Indian
	Labour		Chi Onwurah[12]	Newcastle upon Tyne Central	2010		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Priti Patel[12]	Witham	2010		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Yasmin Qureshi[12]	Bolton South East	2010		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Anas Sarwar[12]	Glasgow Central	2010	2015	Defeated	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Alok Sharma[12]	Reading West	2010		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Chuka Umunna[12]	Streatham	2010	2019 (Crossed the floor in 2019)	Resigned from Labour, joined Change UK	Black British/White British/White Irish (Mixed)
	Change UK				2019	2019	Resigned from Change UK, joined Liberal Democrats
	Liberal Democrats				2019	2019	Defeated
	Conservative		Paul Uppal[12]	Wolverhampton South West	2010	2015	Defeated	British Indian
	Labour		Valerie Vaz[12]	Walsall South	2010		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Nadhim Zahawi[12]	Stratford-on-Avon	2010		Serving	British Iraqi
	Labour Co-op		Seema Malhotra[12]	Feltham and Heston	2011		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		James Cleverly[54]	Braintree	2015		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Thangam Debbonaire[4]	Bristol West	2015		Serving	Anglo-Indian
	Conservative		Suella Braverman[4]	Fareham	2015		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Nus Ghani[4]	Wealden	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Imran Hussain[4]	Bradford East	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Rupa Huq[4]	Ealing Central and Acton	2015		Serving	British Bangladeshi
	Conservative		Ranil Jayawardena[4]	North East Hampshire	2015		Serving	British Sri Lankan
	Conservative		Seema Kennedy[4]	South Ribble	2015	2019	Retired	British Iranian/White Irish (Mixed)
	Labour		Clive Lewis[4]	Norwich South	2015		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Alan Mak[65]	Havant	2015		Serving	British Chinese
	Labour Co-op		Kate Osamor[66]	Edmonton	2015		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Naz Shah[66]	Bradford West	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
	SNP		Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh[67]	Ochil and South Perthshire	2015	2017	Defeated	British Pakistani/White British/Other White (Mixed)
	Labour		Tulip Siddiq[67]	Hampstead and Kilburn	2015		Serving	British Bangladeshi
	Conservative		Rishi Sunak[4]	Richmond	2015		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Rosena Allin-Khan[4]	Tooting	2016		Serving	British Pakistani/Other White (Mixed)
	Conservative		Bim Afolami[67][4]	Hitchin and Harpenden	2017		Serving	Black British
	Conservative		Kemi Badenoch[67][4]	Saffron Walden	2017		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Bambos Charalambous[67][4]	Enfield Southgate	2017		Serving	British Cypriot[68]
	Labour		Marsha de Cordova[67][4]	Battersea	2017		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi[67][4]	Slough	2017		Serving	British Indian
	Labour Co-op		Preet Gill[67][4]	Birmingham Edgbaston	2017		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Afzal Khan[67][4]	Manchester Gorton	2017		Serving	British Pakistani
	Liberal Democrats		Layla Moran[67][69][70]	Oxford West and Abingdon	2017		Serving	British Palestinian/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Fiona Onasanya	Peterborough	2017	2018 (Crossed the floor in 2018)	Expelled from Labour, became an Independent	Black British
	Independent				2018	2019	Removed from office
	Labour		Faisal Rashid[67][4]	Warrington South	2017	2019	Defeated	British Pakistani
	Labour		Eleanor Smith[67][71][4]	Wolverhampton South West	2017	2019	Defeated	Black British
	Labour		Mohammad Yasin[67][4]	Bedford	2017		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Janet Daby[72][73]	Lewisham East	2018		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Tahir Ali[17]	Birmingham Hall Green	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Apsana Begum[17]	Poplar and Limehouse	2019		Serving	British Bangladeshi
	Conservative		Saqib Bhatti[17]	Meriden	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Feryal Clark[17]	Enfield North	2019		Serving	British Turkish (Kurdish)[74]
	Conservative		Claire Coutinho[17]	East Surrey	2019		Serving	British Indian[75]
	Labour Co-op		Florence Eshalomi[17]	Vauxhall	2019		Serving	Black British
	Conservative		Darren Henry[17]	Broxtowe	2019		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Kim Johnson[17]	Liverpool Riverside	2019		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Imran Ahmad Khan[17]	Wakefield	2019		Serving	British Pakistani/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Nav Mishra[17]	Stockport	2019		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Gagan Mohindra[17]	South West Hertfordshire	2019		Serving	British Indian[75]
	Labour		Abena Oppong-Asare[17]	Erith and Thamesmead	2019		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Taiwo Owatemi[17]	Coventry North West	2019		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Sarah Owen[17]	Luton North	2019		Serving	British Chinese/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Bell Ribeiro-Addy[17]	Streatham	2019		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Zarah Sultana[17]	Coventry South	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
	Liberal Democrats		Munira Wilson[17]	Twickenham	2019		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Nadia Whittome[17]	Nottingham East	2019		Serving	Anglo-Indian
	Labour		Claudia Webbe[17]	Leicester East	2019	2020	Suspended from Labour, became an Independent	Black British
	Independent				2020		Serving
	SNP		Anum Qaisar-Javed[76]	Airdrie and Shotts	2021		Serving	British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Members of the Cabinet in the House of Lords[]

Party		Portrait	Name	First office held	Year joined	Ethnicity
	Labour		Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos[77]	Secretary of State for International Development	2003	Black British
	Labour		Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland[78]	Attorney General for England and Wales (attending Cabinet)	2007	Black British
	Conservative		Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi[79]	Minister without Portfolio	2010	British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Ministers in the House of Lords[]

Party		Portrait	Name	First office held	Year joined	Ethnicity
	Liberal		Satyendra Prasanna Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha	Under-Secretary of State for India	1919	British Indian
	Labour		Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos[80]	Baroness-in-Waiting	1998	Black British
	Labour		Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland[81]	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs	1999	Black British
	Labour		Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham[82]	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health	2007	British Iraqi
	Labour		Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera[83]	Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Competitiveness and Small Business	2008	British Indian
	Conservative		Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma[84]	Baroness-in-waiting	2010	British Indian
	Conservative		Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon[85]	Lord-in-waiting	2012	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Dolar Popat, Baron Popat[86]	Lord-in-waiting	2013	British Indian
	Conservative		Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik[87]	Baroness-in-waiting	2016	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor[88]	Baroness-in-waiting	2018	British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Members of the House of Lords[]

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Party		Portraitl	Name	Year entered	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Liberal		Satyendra Prasanno Sinha, 1st Baron Sinha[12]	1919	1928	Died	British Indian
	Conservative		Marcus Samuel, 1st Viscount Bearsted	1921	1927	Died	British Iraqi
	Conservative		Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted	1927	1948	Died	British Iraqi
	Liberal		[89]	1945	1967	Died	British Indian
	Crossbench		[90]	1969	1989	Died	British Indian
	Crossbench		Learie Constantine, Baron Constantine[12]	1969	1971	Died	Black British
	Labour		David Pitt, Baron Pitt of Hampstead[91]	1975	1994	Died	Black British
	Crossbench		Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis[54]	1977	2013	Died	British Indian
	Crossbench		Lawrence Kadoorie, Baron Kadoorie	1981	1993	Died	British Iraqi
	Conservative Party		Shreela Flather, Baroness Flather[12][91]	1990	2008 (Crossed the floor in 2008)	Resigned from the Conservative Party, now a Crossbencher	British Indian
	Crossbench			2008		Serving
	Crossbench		Lydia Dunn, Baroness Dunn[92]	1990	2010	Permanently disqualified under the provisions of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010	British Chinese[93]
	Labour		Meghnad Desai, Baron Desai[12]	1991		Serving	British Indian
	Crossbench		Michael Nazir-Ali, Bishop of Rochester[94]	1994	2009	Retired	British Pakistani
	Crossbench		James Lindsay, 3rd Baron Lindsay of Birker[95][96]	1995	1999	Removed	British Chinese/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative Party		John Taylor, Baron Taylor of Warwick[12]	1996	2011 (Crossed the floor in 2011)	Resigned from the Conservative Party, now a Crossbencher[97]	Black British
	Crossbench			2011		Serving
	Conservative		Maurice Saatchi, Baron Saatchi[92]	1996		Serving	British Iraqi
	Labour Party		Swraj Paul, Baron Paul[12]	1996	2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher[98]	British Indian
	Crossbench			2010		Serving
	Conservative		Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri[92]	1997	2010	Permanently disqualified under the provisions of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010	British Indian
	Labour		Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos[92]	1997		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Patricia Scotland, Baroness Scotland of Asthal[12]	1997		Serving	Black British
	Liberal Democrats		Navnit Dholakia, Baron Dholakia[12]	1997		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Waheed Alli, Baron Alli[12]	1998		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour Party		Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin[12]	1998	2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher[99]	British Bangladeshi
	Crossbench			2010		Serving
	Labour Party		Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed[92]	1998	2007 (Crossed the floor in 2007)	Expelled from the Labour Party, became a Crossbencher[100]	British Pakistani
	Crossbench			2007	2020	Resigned under threat of expulsion
	Crossbench		[101][102]	1999	1999	Removed	British Indian
	Labour		Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich[92]	1999	2013	Died	British Indian
	Crossbench		Usha Prashar, Baroness Prashar[12]	1999		Serving	British Indian
	Crossbench		Narendra Patel, Baron Patel[12]	1999		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Rosalind Howells, Baroness Howells of St Davids[12]	1999	2019	Retired	Black British
	Conservative		Sebastian Coe, Baron Coe[60][61][62][63]	2000		Serving	Anglo-Indian
	Labour		Bhikhu Parekh, Baron Parekh[12]	2000		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn[12]	2000	2019	Died	British Indian
	Crossbench		Herman Ouseley, Baron Ouseley[12]	2001	2019	Retired	Black British
	Crossbench		Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale[12]	2001		Serving	Black British
	Labour Party		Amir Bhatia, Baron Bhatia[12]	2001	2010 (Crossed the floor in 2010)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher[103]	British Indian
	Crossbench			2010		Serving
	Crossbench		Michael Chan, Baron Chan	2001	2006	Died	British Chinese
	Crossbench		John Sentamu, Baron Sentamu[4]	2002	2020	Retired as Archbishop of York, created a life peer in 2021	Black British
				2021		Serving
	Labour		Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya[12]	2004	2019	Died	British Indian
	Crossbench		Diljit Rana, Baron Rana[12]	2004	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Resigned from the Crossbenches, now a Conservative	British Indian
	Conservative			2016		Serving
	Crossbench		Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey[12]	2004		Serving	Black British
	Liberal Democrats		Kishwer Falkner, Baroness Falkner of Margravine[12]	2004		Serving	British Pakistani
	Liberal Democrats		David Alliance, Baron Alliance	2004		Serving	British Iranian
	Crossbench		Michael Hastings, Baron Hastings of Scarisbrick[12]	2005		Serving	Black British
	Conservative		Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma[12]	2006		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Mohamed Sheikh, Baron Sheikh[12]	2006		Serving	British Indian
	Crossbench		Karan Bilimoria, Baron Bilimoria[12]	2006		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford[12]	2006		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Bill Morris, Baron Morris of Handsworth[12]	2006	2020	Retired	Black British
	Labour		Shriti Vadera, Baroness Vadera[92]	2007		Serving	British Indian
	Crossbench		Khalid Hameed, Baron Hameed[12]	2007		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham[12]	2007	2019 (Crossed the floor in 2019)	Resigned from the Labour Party, now a Crossbencher	British Iraqi
	Crossbench			2019		Serving
	Conservative		Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi[12]	2007		Serving	British Pakistani
	Crossbench		Haleh Afshar, Baroness Afshar	2007		Serving	British Iranian
	Crossbench		Ajay Kakkar, Baron Kakkar[12]	2010		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Nat Wei, Baron Wei[12]	2010		Serving	British Chinese
	Liberal Democrats		Meral Hussein-Ece, Baroness Hussein-Ece[12]	2010		Serving	British Turkish
	Liberal Democrats		Floella Benjamin, Baroness Benjamin[12]	2010		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Paul Boateng, Baron Boateng[4]	2010		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Dolar Popat, Baron Popat[12]	2010		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Bernard Ribeiro, Baron Ribeiro[104]	2010		Serving	Black British
	Conservative		Tariq Ahmad, Baron Ahmad of Wimbledon[12]	2011		Serving	British Pakistani
	Liberal Democrats		Qurban Hussain, Baron Hussain[12]	2011	2015 (Crossed the floor in 2015)	Resigned from the Liberal Democrats, now a Crossbencher	British Pakistani
	Crossbench			2015		Serving
	Labour		Oona King, Baroness King of Bow[59]	2011		Serving	African American/White British (Mixed)
	Liberal Democrats		Raj Loomba, Baron Loomba[12]	2011	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Resigned from the Liberal Democrats, now a Crossbencher	British Indian
	Crossbench			2016		Serving
	Labour		Gulam Noon, Baron Noon	2011	2015	Died	British Indian
	Crossbench		Indarjit Singh, Baron Singh of Wimbledon[12]	2011		Serving	British Indian
	Liberal Democrats		Zahida Manzoor, Baroness Manzoor[12]	2013	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Resigned from the Liberal Democrats, now a Conservative	British Pakistani
	Conservative			2016		Serving
	Liberal Democrats		Rumi Verjee, Baron Verjee[12]	2013		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Doreen Lawrence, Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon[12]	2013		Serving	Black British
	Conservative		Ranbir Singh Suri, Baron Suri	2014		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Nosheena Mobarik, Baroness Mobarik	2014		Serving	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Ruby McGregor-Smith, Baroness McGregor-Smith[104]	2015		Serving	British Indian
	Liberal Democrats		Shas Sheehan, Baroness Sheehan[104]	2015		Serving	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Jitesh Gadhia, Baron Gadhia	2016		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Shami Chakrabarti, Baroness Chakrabarti[12]	2016		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Martha Osamor, Baroness Osamor[104][105]	2018		Serving	Black British
	Conservative		Zameer Choudrey, Baron Choudrey[106]	2019		Serving	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Rami Ranger, Baron Ranger[107]	2019		Serving	British Indian
	Crossbench		Simon Woolley, Baron Woolley of Woodford[17]	2019		Serving	Black British
	Crossbench		Minouche Shafik, Baroness Shafik	2020		Serving	British Egyptian
	Conservative		Aamer Sarfraz, Baron Sarfraz	2020		Serving	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Syed Kamall, Baron Kamall	2021		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Wajid Khan, Baron Khan of Burnley	2021		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Prem Sikka, Baron Sikka	2021		Serving	British Indian

List of ethnic minority Members of the European Parliament[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Labour		Mark Hendrick[12]	Central Lancashire	1994	1999	Defeated	British Somali/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Nirj Deva[59][108]	South East England	1999	2019	Defeated	British Sri Lankan
	Conservative		Bashir Khanbhai	East of England	1999	2004	Retired	British Indian
	Labour		Neena Gill[108]	West Midlands	1999	2009	Defeated	British Indian
					2014	2020	Post abolished
	Labour		Claude Moraes[108]	London	1999	2020	Post abolished	British Indian
	Liberal Democrats		Sajjad Karim	North West England	2004	2006 (Crossed the floor in 2006)	Left Liberal Democrats, joined Conservative Party	British Pakistani
	Conservative				2006	2019	Defeated
	Conservative		Syed Kamall[108]	London	2005	2019	Defeated	British Indian
	UKIP		Amjad Bashir[109]	Yorkshire and the Humber	2014	2015 (Crossed the floor in 2015)	Left UKIP, joined Conservative Party	British Pakistani
	Conservative				2015	2019	Defeated
	Labour		M. Afzal Khan	North West England	2014	2017	Resigned to become Member of Parliament for Manchester Gorton	British Pakistani
	UKIP		Steven Woolfe	North West England	2014	2016 (Crossed the floor in 2016)	Left UKIP, became an Independent	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Independent				2016	2018 (Crossed the floor in 2018)	Joined Conservative Party
	Conservative				2018	2019	Retired
	Labour		Wajid Khan	North West England	2017	2019	Defeated	British Pakistani
	Conservative		Nosheena Mobarik	Scotland	2017	2020	Post abolished	British Pakistani
	Liberal Democrats		Dinesh Dhamija	London	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Indian
	Brexit Party		Benyamin Habib	London	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Pakistani
	Brexit Party		Christina Jordan	South West England	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Malaysian
	Green		Magid Magid	Yorkshire and the Humber	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Somali
	Liberal Democrats		Shaffaq Mohammed	Yorkshire and the Humber	2019	2020	Post abolished	British Pakistani
	Brexit Party		Louis Stedman-Bryce	Scotland	2019	2019 (Crossed the floor in 2019)	Resigned from the Brexit Party	Black British[110][111]/White British (Mixed)
	Independent				2019	2020	Post abolished

List of ethnic minority London Assembly Members[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Labour		David Lammy	London-wide	2000	2000	Resigned to become Member of Parliament for Tottenham	Black British
	Labour		Trevor Phillips	London-wide	2000	2003	Resigned	Black British
	Labour		Jennette Arnold[4]	North East	2000	2021	Retired	Black British
	Labour		Murad Qureshi[12]	London-wide	2004	2016	Defeated	British Bangladeshi
	Conservative		James Cleverly[12]	Bexley and Bromley	2008	2016	Retired to become Member of Parliament for Braintree	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Navin Shah[4]	Brent and Harrow	2008	2021	Retired	British Indian
	Labour		Onkar Sahota[4]	Ealing and Hillingdon	2012		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Kemi Badenoch[12]	London-wide	2015	2017	Resigned to become Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden	Black British
	Conservative		Shaun Bailey[4]	London-wide	2016		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Unmesh Desai[4]	City and East	2016		Serving	British Indian
	Labour Co-op		Florence Eshalomi[4]	Lambeth and Southwark	2016	2021	Retired to become Member of Parliament for Vauxhall	Black British
	UKIP		David Kurten[112]	London-wide	2016	2021	Defeated	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Marina Ahmad	Lambeth and Southwark	2021		Serving	British Bangladeshi
	Liberal Democrats		Hina Bokhari	London-wide	2021		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Krupesh Hirani	Brent and Harrow	2021		Serving	British Indian
	Labour		Sem Moema	North East	2021		Serving	Black British
	Labour		Sakina Sheikh	London-wide	2021		Serving	British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Scottish Parliament Members[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	SNP		Bashir Ahmad[113]	Glasgow	2007	2009	Died in office	British Pakistani
	Labour		Hanzala Malik[114]	Glasgow	2011	2016	Defeated	British Pakistani/White British (Mixed)
	SNP		Humza Yousaf[115]	Glasgow	2011		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Anas Sarwar[114]	Glasgow	2016		Serving	British Pakistani
	Labour		Foysol Choudhury[116]	Lothian	2021		Serving	British Bangladeshi
	Conservative		Pam Gosal	West Scotland	2021		Serving	British Indian
	Conservative		Sandesh Gulhane	Glasgow	2021		Serving	British Indian
	SNP		Kaukab Stewart[117]	Glasgow	2021		Serving	British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Members of the Senedd[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Plaid Cymru		Mohammad Asghar[4][118]	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		Vaughan Gething[4][118]	Cardiff South and Penarth	2011		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Conservative		Altaf Hussain[119]	South Wales West	2015	2016	Defeated	British Indian
					2021		Serving
	Conservative		Natasha Asghar[120]	South Wales East	2021		Serving	British Pakistani

List of ethnic minority Northern Irish Assembly Members[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Alliance		Anna Lo[121]	Belfast South	2007	2016	Retired	British Chinese

List of ethnic minority Police and Crime Commissioners[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Labour		Hardyal Dhindsa[122]	Derbyshire	2016	2021	Defeated	British Indian
	Conservative		Festus Akinbusoye	Bedfordshire	2021		Serving	Black British

List of ethnic minority directly elected mayors[]

Party		Portrait	Name	Constituency	Year elected	Year left	Reason for tenure ending	Ethnicity
	Independent		Lufthar Rahman	Mayor of Tower Hamlets	2010	2014 (Crossed the floor in 2014)	Created Tower Hamlets First	British Bangladeshi
	Tower Hamlets First				2014	2015	Convicted of corrupt or illegal practices and removed from office
	Labour		Sadiq Khan	Mayor of London	2016		Serving	British Pakistani[123]
	Labour		Marvin Rees	Mayor of Bristol	2016		Serving	Black British/White British (Mixed)
	Labour		Rokhsana Fiaz	Mayor of Newham	2018		Serving	British Pakistani[124]
	Labour		Joanne Anderson	Mayor of Liverpool	2021		Serving	Black British

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