Asian Enderronians in the Enderronian Parliament

117 Asian Enderronians have been elected to the Enderronian Parliament and its predecessors, the Enderronian Legislative Assembly and the Legislative Assembly of British Mariana. The earliest-elected MP with Asian heritage was William Mulligan, who had a Japanese grandmother; he served from 1875 and 1880 and did not identify as Asian. The first MP to identify as Asian Enderronian was Thomas Quantong, who was first elected in 1911. The first MP with full Asian heritage was Michael Chu Ting Chan, the son of immigrants from Hong Kong. He was first elected in 1945, the first election at which Chinese Enderronians were allowed to vote and stand for parliament. The first female Asian Enderronian MPs were Susan Liew and Rei Nagasawa, both elected in 1974. At the start of the current (19th) Enderronian Parliament, there were 39 Asian MPs, or 26 percent of the body, the highest in Enderron's history.

Asian Enderronians make up the vast majority of ethnic minority MPs. A majority of Asian Enderronian MPs have represented seats in Tojima (40) and Longshan (22), Enderron's two Asian-majority prefectures. The two metropolitan prefectures, Wentworth (15) and New Plymouth (9), have elected the next most Asian MPs. Four prefectures, Avalon, Greenberg, Lawrencia and Sierra, have yet to elect an Asian MP.

Asian Enderronians have historically suffered from restrictions on their voting rights. Chinese voters were completely barred from voting and running for election until 1942, and Japanese voters, who were given limited suffrage in 1906, were stripped of their voting rights from 1937 to 1946. Asian voters were subject to additional requirements until 1958, the most prominent being an English proficiency test.