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Has your area of the UK ever elected a minority candidate? Or a woman? Odds are that the answer is no. Default man - aka a white man - is likely to have been in power there every year since the 13th century.

Out of the UK's 650 parliamentary constituencies, 320 of them have NEVER had a woman and/or a person of colour as their MP.

Here is what that looks like on a map - zoom in and click around to see how your area is doing. RED areas have only ever elected white men.

Don't feel TOO smug, non-red areas - the MOST women or ethnic minority MPs a constituency has returned since 1264 is... six.

The picture's particularly striking for ethnic minorities

Most of the areas marked in beige have voted in just one white female MP. The UK has had 34 ethnic minority MPs who are men and just 12 ethnic minority MPs who are women.

Bethnal Green & Bow is the only constituency in the UK which has had more than one woman of colour as its MP.

Though the first non-white MP was elected in 1892

The UK's first non-white MP was the Liberals' Dadabhai Naoroji, who was returned for Finsbury in 1892.

And the first woman was elected in 1916

First non-male MP to take a seat in Parliament was Nancy Astor for Plymouth Sutton in 1919 - although in 1918 Constance de Markievicz was elected and, along with 72 other Sinn Féin MPs, did not take a seat.

First non-white non-male MP? Diane Abbott for Hackney North and Stoke Newington in 1987.

It's also worth noting that the first-ever Muslim women MPs were returned at the latest election, just four years ago in 2010 - Shabana Mahmood for Birmingham Ladywood and Yasmin Qureshi for Bolton South East.

We didn't count Boris Johnson as an ethnic minority MP

Although they're sometimes listed as ethnic minority MPs, for mapping purposes we chose not to include Iain Duncan Smith, Sebastian Coe, or Boris Johnson & his brother in our map. Ian Duncan Smith is one-eighth Japanese, Seb Coe's grandfather was Indian, while BoJo and JoJo are one-eighth Turkish.

Boundary issues:

We were also more interested in which AREAS had ever chosen a non-white-male MP than in the raw numbers, so MPs returned for constituencies whose boundaries have been redrawn were counted across the areas into which those constituencies were divided, even if that meant counting them several times.

Had we chosen to simply ignore the results for constituencies with redrawn boundaries, it would have meant erasing over 100 MPs from history - which, we feel, would have clouded the issue.

poll loading Does the background of an MP matter? 0+ VOTES SO FAR Yes - MPs should represent the people No - it's about what they do not who they are Not sure

[Sources: Women Members of Parliament, Ethnic Minorities in Parliament]