The London Mayoralty 2016 - What Role Could Faith & Ethnicity Play In the Contest?
Last week, LBC conducted a poll that generated the headline “Only Half Of Londoners Happy With Muslim Mayor”.
There are two key Muslim candidates running to be Mayor of London: Conservative MEP Sayeed Kamall and Labour MP Sadiq Khan.
The poll suggested that 55% of Londoners would be “comfortable” with a Muslim Mayor; however 31% would be “uncomfortable”.
So to what extent would this apparent finding affect outcomes at the Mayoral ballot box in 2016 - if, for example, Labour’s British Muslim prospective candidate for Mayor, Sadiq Khan, faced off against non-Muslim Conservative front runner candidate Zac Goldsmith?
Do these factors have any meaningful negative effect at the ballot box in a city as diverse as London where 40% of the electorate are "non white", or could an ethnic minority candidate choice be in fact a benefit to Conservative or Labour chances of mayoral victory?
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