Sentence examples for Asian constituencies from inspiring English sources

Several California Democrats who voted against the bill said their heavily Latino or Asian constituencies encouraged them to vote no.

In his constituency, it was African and Asian constituents who were more likely to raise immigration as an issue in 2010.

You might have heard it was his long-term opposition to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq which won him a 10,000 majority in an Asian-heavy constituency more than usually sensitive to foreign conflict.

A mix of suburbs and increasingly Asian urban districts, the constituency spent decades in Tory hands.

"On Friday, I met some Asian women in my constituency," she confided.

The Tory candidate, Kashif Ali, performed well in the general election, and is said to be picking up strong support among the constituency's Asian voters.

The Respect party has been at pains to distance itself from a belief that Galloway ran an Asian-only campaign, and that it is to this section of the community that he owes his win; but there is a growing sense that despite having fielded the only Muslim candidate in the election, Labour failed to connect with Asian voters in the constituency.

Blacks and Asians are moving to marginal constituencies in the suburbs.

Powell was attending the opening of a primary school with mainly Asian kids in his Wolverhampton constituency.

Theresa May, the Conservative Party chairman, briefly raised the spectre of Enoch Powell the party's late 1960s anti-immigrant firebrand but only to gloat over the appointment of an Asian candidate in his old constituency.

The decision will anger activists in West Ham, east London, where an all-women shortlist excluded several prominent black and Asian male candidates in a constituency with a big minority ethnic electorate.