Election Sees Conservative Majority
A record number of South Asian Member of Parliament’s (MP’s) have been elected to the House of Commons. With a majority Conservative government, David Cameron looks set to stay as the next Prime Minister.
On a shocking night, exit polls gave the Tories a lead of 316. The results of the 2015 General Election saw Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, and UKIP leader, Nigel Farage, resign.
Asian MP’s are as follows:-
Sadiq Khan – Tooting (Labour)
Rishi Sunak – Richmond (Yorkshire)
Keith Vaz – Leicester East (Labour)
Valerie Vaz – Walsall South (Labour)
Alok Sharma – Reading West (Conservative)
Sajid Javid – Bromsgrove (Conservative)
Priti Patel – Witham (Conservative)
Rupa Huq – Ealing Central and Acton (Labour)
Rehman Chishti – Gillingham and Rainham (Conservative)
Naseem Shah – Bradford West (Labour)
Shailesh Vara – Cambridgeshire North West (Conservative)
Tulip Siddiq – Hampstead and Kilburn (Labour)
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh – Ochil and South Pershire (SNP)
Virendra Sharma – Ealing Southall (Labour)
Seema Malhotra – Feltham and Heston – (Labour)
Lisa Nandy – Wigan – (Labour)
Yasmin Qureshi – Bolton South East (Labour)
Shabana Mahmood – Birmingham Ladywood (Labour)
Khalid Mahmood – Birmingham Perry Barr (Labour)
Rushanara Ali – Bethnal Green and Bow (Labour)
Ranil Jayawardena – Hampshire North East (Conservative)
Imran Hussain – Bradford East (Labour)
Nusrat Ghani – Wealden (Conservative)
Seema Kennedy – South Ribble (Conservative)
