The general election on 7 May re-elected Sajid Javid, elevated to the post of Secretary of State for Business, Innovation & Skills - whose father is Indian and mother Pakistani - to the House of Commons from Bromsgrove.
23 others, either sitting lawmakers or elected for the first time, will take their places in the directly elected lower chamber of parliament as the Conservative party led by Prime Minister David Cameron left pollsters and pundits red-faced by surging to an absolute majority.
The senior-most MP of South Asian or Indian origin Keith Vaz, who has been a Labour member of the house from 1987 and chairman of the home affairs select committee for the past 10 years, was among the candidates returned to the Commons from his bastion of Leicester East.
Other Indian origin MPs joining him are his sister Valerie Vaz (Labour, Walsall South), Shailesh Vara (Conservative, Cambridgeshire North West), Virendra Sharma (Labour, Ealing Southall), Priti Patel (Conservative, Witham) – now Minister of State for Employment - Lisa Nandy (Labour, Wigan), Alok Sharma (Conservative, Reading West), Seema Malhotra (Labour, Feltham & Heston), Suella Fernandes (Conservative, Fareham) and Rishi Sunak (Conservative, Richmond, Yorks), who is a son-in-law of N R Narayana Murthy, one of the founders of the Indian information technology company INFOSYS.
That makes it 10 Indian-origin MPs (11 if Indo-Pak Javid is included). This tally having reached double figures for the first time. The only incumbent to be defeated was Paul Uppal, who lost in Wolverhampton South West.
The number of MPs of Pakistani descent has also increased – to nine or 10 if Javid is added - despite a sitting candidate Anas Sarwar losing his Glasgow Central seat. Sarwar had succeeded his father Mohammed Sarwar, who became Governor of the Pakistani province of Punjab, but has since stepped down to join cricketer Imran Khan's party Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf.
The Pakistani MPs are Sadiq Khan (Labour, Tooting), Shabana Mahmood (Labour, Birmingham Ladywood), Khalid Mahmood (Labour, Birmingham Perry Barr), Yasmin Qureshi (Labour, Bolton South East), Rehman Chishti (Conservative, Gillingham & Rainham), Imran Hussain (Labour, Bradford East), Nusrant Ghani (Conservative, Wealden), Naseem Shah (Labour, Bradford West) and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (Scottish National Party, Ochil & South Perthshire).
MPs of Bangladeshi extraction have tripled. In the previous house Rushanara Ali was the only such representative. This time not only has she been re-elected from Bethnal Green & Bow, but has been joined by Rupa Huq (Ealing Central & Acton) and Tulip Siddiq, grand-daughter of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the legendary leader of Bangladesh’s liberation movement and niece of the present Bangladeshi prime minister, Sheikh Hasina. All three belong to the Labour party.
Completing the two dozen is Ranil Jayawardena (Conservative, North East Hampshire). He is the first MP of Sri Lankan heritage to enter the Commons since Nirj Deva, who represented Brentford & Isleworth for the Tories between 1992 and 1997.
