By way of gender, race and sexuality, the group of MPs elected final Thursday are
By way of gender, race and sexuality, the group of MPs elected final Thursday are probably the most various thus far, though girls nonetheless lag means behind males when it comes to equal illustration within the Home of Commons.
The proportion of MPs from ethnic minorities, though rising, can also be decrease than that of the UK’s inhabitants as a complete.
There are 140 first-time MPs within the 2019 consumption and 15 who’re returning to the benches having sat beforehand, though not within the final Parliament.
Most of those are new Conservatives, however solely the Greens and Plaid Cymru are returning with none new MPs.
Extra girls than ever earlier than
A complete of 220 feminine MPs had been elected final Thursday, 12 greater than the earlier file of 208 within the 2017 normal election.
For the primary time, each the Liberal Democrats and Labour have extra girls MPs than males.
Of Labour’s 202 MPs (excluding Speaker Lindsay Hoyle), 104 are girls – and of the Liberal Democrats’ 11 MPs, seven are girls.
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Document variety of ethnic minority MPs
One in ten of the 650 MPs elected this yr are non-white.
Ten years in the past only one in 40 MPs was non-white, in keeping with analysis by the impartial suppose tank British Future.
There are 13 extra non-white MPs than within the final Parliament, however all symbolize English seats.
There are not any black, Asian and minority ethnic MPs in Scotland, Wales or Northern Eire.
Regardless of shedding MPs total, Labour elevated their illustration of black and minority ethnic MPs. Half of the 26 new Labour MPs are from ethnic minority backgrounds.
That determine contains Sarah Owen, Labour’s first British Chinese language MP, and Kim Johnson, the primary black MP in Liverpool.
One in 5 Labour MPs at the moment are black or minority ethnic, in contrast with 6% of Conservatives.
The non-white inhabitants throughout the UK as a complete was 14%, in keeping with the 2011 census.
At the least 45 MPs are brazenly homosexual
Among the many 650 MPs are a minimum of 45 who’re brazenly homosexual, lesbian or bisexual – and have referred to their sexuality in interviews or different public statements.
The Scottish Nationwide Social gathering has the best proportion, with 9 of its 47 MPs brazenly homosexual.
Impartial faculties nonetheless over-represented
The brand new Parliament has 173 MPs who went to impartial faculties. 4 in 5 of those are Conservative MPs, in keeping with figures from the Sutton Belief, an organisation that campaigns for social mobility.
Some 138 Conservative MPs had been educated privately, in contrast with 27 Labour MPs and eight from different events.
The overwhelming majority of MPs went to school. Twenty-one p.c went to both Oxford or Cambridge and an extra third to one of many elite Russell Group universities.
Just below 20% of the UK inhabitants has been to school.
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