All 52 seats in the House of Representatives 26 seats needed for a majority
First party
Second party
Leader
Timoci Bavadra
Kamisese Mara
Party
FLP–NFP
Alliance
Last election
22 seats
28 seats
Seats won
28
24
Seat change
6
4
Popular vote
461,056
484,543
Percentage
47.07%
49.46%
Swing
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Kamisese Mara
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Timoci Bavadra
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Sitiveni Rabuka
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Siromi Turaga
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Inia Seruiratu
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General elections were held in Fiji between 4 and 11 April 1987.[1] They marked the first electoral transition of power in Fijian history. Despite receiving just under 50% of the vote, the Alliance Party of longtime Prime Minister, Kamisese Mara was defeated by a coalition of the Fiji Labour Party (contesting a general election for the first time) and National Federation Party, which won 28 seats to the Alliance's 24. The Labour Party's Timoci Bavadra became Prime Minister.
Bavadra's 28-member parliamentary caucus included only seven ethnic Fijians, all of them elected with predominantly Indo-Fijian support from national constituencies. His fourteen-member cabinet included six Fijians, seven Indo-Fijians and one European. Effective Indo-Fijian control of the government caused widespread resentment among the ethnic Fijian community, and after less than a month in office, the new government was deposed on 14 May in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.
^Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 ISBN 0-19-924959-8
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