Racial diversity in the 2011 federal election: visible minority candidates and MPs

• Autores: Jerome H. Black
• Localización: Canadian parliamentary review, ISSN 0229-2548, Vol. 36, Nº. 3, 2013, págs. 21-26
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The 2011 federal election was notable in many respects. The Liberal party won the fewest seats ever in its long history. The New Democratic Party elected its largest ever contingent of MPs enabling the party to form the official opposition for the first time. Another development was the first-ever direct election of a Green Party candidate. The election also produced record levels of gender and racial diversity within Parliament. When the votes were finally tallied, 76 women had won their way into the House of Commons, an increase of seven over the number elected in 2008. This article focuses on visible minority representation which also attained a high water mark in the 2011 election.