Britain's black voters:
The rout that Labour's local ground for national voting trends.
However all the Islamic Party candidates lost — and badly.
In Blackbum, Labour increased its majorities in both wards contested by the Islamic Party (one of them the scene of anti-Satanic Verses rallies and book-burnings), and increased its overall majority on the council by 10. The Islamic Party polled a total of only 360 votes.
It was a similar story in Bol ton, where all four Islamic candidates lost, with a total of 1,201 votes between them. In the ward with the highest concentration of Muslim voters (around 20%), they got nearly 500 votes. Again Labour's overall majority on the
council went up — by eight seats. Labour councillor of bribery, he Bolton claimed that Labour care
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