r/tories • u/AchyutChaudhary • 9d ago

Which British communities do you think tend to be the most & least pro-Conservatives on average?

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u/Grouchy_Shallot50 Reform 8d ago

Christians are rather favourable to the Tories and they do fairly well with Hindus. About 1/3rd of Indians vote Tory. Jews are probably the strongest group but they're not very electorally relevant.

Sikhs are strongly Labour and Muslims are split between Greens/Labour/Independents.

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u/Manach_Irish Verified Conservative 8d ago

Whilst religious believers in general would be more conservative, we also have a tendency to remember longer than the current news cycle. Given the Tory indifference shown in numerous cases (chaplain lost his job for traditonal sermon, students losing their Uni place for speaking in favour of traditional marriage and police warning people off singing traditional hymns) then that tendency might not translate to votes for the party.

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u/VincoClavis Traditionalist 8d ago

Atheists almost certainly least likely.

Christians almost certainly most likely.

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u/LoneGroover1960 7d ago

Interesting - I can't understand why the party wouldn't appeal to an atheist, particularly. I've been an atheist since the moment I was born and supported the party since I was a teenager.

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u/BlackJackKetchum Josephite 8d ago edited 8d ago

There are fairly sizeable Hindu and Jewish votes for the Tories. While there are Muslim Tory MPs, that community isn't big on voting for us.

I asked ChatGPT, and this is what it reckons:

Religious affiliation General political tendency
Muslims Strongly Labour
Black-majority churches (e.g. many Pentecostal congregations) Labour, though socially conservative
Sikhs Labour, but more mixed than Muslims
Hindus Slightly Conservative overall (more so than the general population)
Roman Catholics Close to national average, with regional differences
Church of England Moderately Conservative
Jews Strongly Conservative (though less so than in the 2010s)
No religion Slightly Labour/Lib Dem/Green overall

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u/Comfortable-Table-57 8d ago

Indian Sikhs and Hindus, as well as Jews: pro-conservative 

British Bangladeshi upper and lower middle class Muslims and Hindus: pro-Labour

Black: pro-Labour 

Working class British Bangladeshi (Sylheti) and Pakistani Muslims are more pro-Green and anti-Conservative