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Political and demographics maps and statistics from the United States and worldwide. I also run @electionvintage. My own politics are center to center-left.

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Rhode Island is ~5% Dominican, largely driven by the fact that Providence is 21% Dominican.

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@TheFuckingUNNow Yup! And they managed to do worse in London in 1987 than 1983.

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In the UK election of 1987, Labour lost further ground in London from their debacle of 1983 (despite making gains nationwide). They lost Battersea and Walthamstow to the Tories and Greenwich to the SDP/Liberal Alliance.

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The Labour party made 12 gains across London in the election of 1992 (which they lost overall); however, this was off a low base. However, the BBC news coverage suggested that they had been targeting 24 London gains in order to win government. #ukpolitics

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@stopthesupermaj Idk, I just get the gut feeling that he will out of spite, not least because there's a good chance a Green could win the seat.

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There will no doubt be a by-election in Keir Starmer's seat of Holborn & St. Pancras.

Demographics:

White: 54.81%
Black: 10.65%
Asian: 21.72 (10.28% Bangladeshi)

Muslim 19.71%

I am not sure if this is enough for a "Gaza independent" to win.

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@NickyFrank30 Interestingly enough, Dominican President Rafael Trujillo's mother's maiden name was "Chevalier".

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Looking at the demographics of the constituencies that elected an independent over Gaza, they ranged from 34.83% Muslim in Leicester South to 46.76% in Blackburn. (Corbyn's seat of Islington North is only 12% Muslim).

Starmer's seat has no chance of electing anyone on the right.

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@ericesheng Oh, that's a good one and I should have remembered that. Especially since him resigning his constituency in 1981 led to the by-election victory of Singapore's first non-PAP MP in quite some time up to that point.

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Can anyone think of people who held elected office in multiple countries? The only ones I can think of are:

Mohammad Sarwar: Glasgow MP and Pakistani Senator
George Reid: Australian Prime Minister and British MP
Mathias Cormann: Raeren, Belgium councillor and Australian Senator

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@Pontus4Pope Philibert Tsirinana of Madagascar also served in the French National Assembly.

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@Pontus4Pope Yeah, I wasn't sure whether to count people who were elected to the colonizing country's legislature before independence and then became leader of their now-independent country. But yeah, him, Léopold Senghor of Senegal, and Manuel Quezon of the Philippines would qualify.

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I forgot Ireland:

Gerry Adams, West Belfast MP (UK) and Louth Teachta Dala (Ireland)
Austin Currie, Irish TD and member of the Northern Ireland Parliament

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@adriaeln Oof, embarrassed I didn't know that.

I should note that I don't count the French President's ex-officio role as co-prince of Andorra as "holding office in multiple countries".

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@tomxhart @Darkshadow6523 @PunishedRWR Kemi Badenoch is the opposite of an anchor baby. She had birthright British citizenship and the family didn't even know it, and to all intents and purposes she grew up in Nigeria before returning to the UK as a teenager.

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Changes to the Texas congressional delegation between 1982 and 1990.

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@PunishedRWR That's 100% true of Indian Hindus, but I don't think it's as true of Indian Sikhs (and certainly not of Indian Muslims).

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Canada has a lower percentage of Germans than the United State, but the distribution is roughly the same (fewer on the coasts, more in the interior).

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@SidKhurana3607 Yup

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Almost 1% of people in Massachusetts endorse Cape Verdean ancestry, with 17% of Brockton endorsing this ancestry. Massachusetts has a large number of people from Lusophone countries.

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House election 1976 in California.

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Maine has a heavy French population, particularly near the Canadian border.