1972 Fijian local elections information

Local elections were held in Fiji on 5 November 1972, with voters electing members of the councils of Lautoka and Suva. They were the first local elections...

of the Indo-Fijian vote. The Indo-Fijian-dominated National Federation Party led by Sidiq Koya won the remaining 19 seats. The election re-affirmed the...

English language in the case of a European, in either English or Fijian in the case of a Fijian, and for an Indian either in English, Hindi, Urdu, Tamil, Telugu...

council which may make bylaws and impose rates (local taxes), subject to the approval of the Fijian Affairs Board, a government department. The board...

one multi-member nationwide constituency. The Fijian Parliament dates from 10 October 1970, when Fiji became independent from the United Kingdom. The...

indigenous population. When an Indo-Fijian dominated government was elected despite these safeguards, the 1987 Fijian coups d'état took place, resulting...

Labour Party leader and an Indo-Fijian, becoming Prime Minister, saying that he would be unacceptable to indigenous Fijian voters that they represented....

Fiji (/ˈfiːdʒi/ FEE-jee, /fiːˈdʒiː/ fee-JEE; Fijian: Viti, [ˈβitʃi]; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, Fijī), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in...

Local elections were held in Fiji on 22 October 2005 to elect the councils of eleven municipalities. In Suva, the elections for the Suva City Council...

Local elections were held in Fiji in October 2002. The results allowed the three major political parties, Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL), the Fiji...

being swamped by an Indo-Fijian block-vote) and Indo-Fijian calls for universal suffrage, and was never widely popular. Ethnic Fijian nationalists blamed the...

Wayback Machine, Fiji Times, 2 January 2008 "Keep President Fijian" Archived 23 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Robert Matau, Fiji Times, 7 January...

Local elections in Fiji are held for two cities (Suva and Lautoka) and ten towns (Ba, Labasa, Lami, Levuka, Nadi, Nausori, Nasinu, Savusavu, Sigatoka...

presidential elections were held in Fiji on 22 October 2021, in which members of parliament elected the president. Wiliame Katonivere was nominated as the FijiFirst...

July 2012. Fiji election: Media blackout comes into effect as polling day nears, Liam Fox, abc.net.au, 15 September 2014 Fijian elections office. "Electoral...

remained in office until early elections in September the same year. Around 25% of the Fijian vote went to the new Fijian Nationalist Party of Sakeasi Butadroka...

areas of responsibility. Prior to the 2006 Fijian coup d'état and the 2009 Fijian constitutional crisis, Fiji's Cabinet was governed by the 1997 Constitution...

the Fijian monarchy following two military coups. Monarchy of Fiji President of Fiji Prime Minister of Fiji "Constitution of the Republic of Fiji" (PDF)...

"Candidate Nominations". Fijian Elections Office. 28 July 2022. Retrieved 13 November 2022. "Fijian Electoral System". Fijian Elections Office. Archived from the...

Abortive elections to a Corporation of European settlers were held in Fiji in 1870. The European settlers in Fiji had been seeking to form some kind of...

General elections were held in Fiji between 4 and 11 April 1987. They marked the first electoral transition of power in Fijian history. Despite receiving...

National Federation Party which had traditionally been Fiji's dominant Indo-Fijian party; Indo-Fijian voters were angered by the NFP's decision to enter into...

Commission. The commissioners were Tomasi Vakatora, an ethnic Fijian, and Brij Lal, an Indo-Fijian, with Sir Paul Reeves, a former Governor-General of New Zealand...

previously a highly esteemed medical doctor, the former president of the Fijian Medical Association, and was military doctor at the time of the coup d'état...

for ethnic Fijians and Rotuman; the remaining five were won by the extremist Fijian Nationalist Party of Sakeasi Butadroka. The 27 Indo-Fijian electorates...

mean Indo-Fijian voters would be less likely to come out to vote, giving the Alliance an advantage in the national constituencies. The Fijian Nationalist...

For the first time, the elections were a largely partisan event, dominated by the Fijian Alliance Party and the Indo-Fijian Federation Party. A total...