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BRITISH ELECTION RESULTS: Year Of The Black Conservative....In Britain!

According to the BBC, the Conservative Party looks set to be the biggest party but with a hung parliament. They must count the ballots by hand in Britain, because these results would've been much speedier for Congressional races here in USA. I'll have to double check after all the results are tallied, but I think the Conservative Party may have more black parliamentarians than the Labour Party. Assuming that the three of four Labour Party incumbents were re-elected and the party got no black pickup seats from the Tories, then the Tories have probably at least equalled them.

Here are the three new black Conservative members of the House of Commons, and one black Conservative who was re-elected for his House of Commons seat and who will become a cabinet minister (Lord John Taylor, another black Conservative in Parliament, is in the appointed House of Lords):

Adam Afriyie, 43 - First Black Conservative Cabinet Minister
Windsor, southern England | Tech entrepreneur & incoming Minister of State for Science & Innovation

Election Analysis: With 71.3% voter turnout, Mr. Afriyie garnered 60.8% of the vote, further pushing the Conservative-dominant district into blue terrority with an 11.4% from his 2005 election (where he increased the Tories' share of the vote from his predecessor). With these stats....perhaps a future Prime Minister on our hands?

Background : Mr. Afriyie - a tech entrepreneur with an estimated net worth of US$156 million - has a Ghanaian father and white British mother. This blog had Mr. Afriyie pegged as someone to watch back in 2004, before he joined the Parliament. It's good to see it coming to fruition.

Helen Grant, 48 - First Black Female Conservative In British Parliament
Maidstone & The Weald, southeastern England | Attorney