Tories get vote boost from ethnic minorities

DAVID Cameron has doubled his share of support among ethnic minority voters.

More than a million people from black, Asian and other ethnic backgrounds backed the Tories at the General Election for the first time in British electoral history, claims the study.

The findings are expected to be seen as a huge advance for the Conservative Party, once seen by many non- white voters as toxic.

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In the survey of 2,000 ethnic minority voters, conducted by polling firm Survation for the think tank British Future, Labour had the biggest ethnic minority support on 52 per cent or 1.6million of nonwhite voters.

However, the Tories are catching up fast on 33 per cent up from 16 per cent in the 2010 general election. Lib Dems and the Greens were backed by five per cent, while the UK Independence Party had two per cent.

Sunder Katwala at British Future said: “Ethnic minority votes are more up for grabs than ever before.”