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Local elections in Fiji are held for two cities (Suva and Lautoka) and ten towns (Ba, Labasa, Lami, Levuka, Nadi, Nausori, Nasinu, Savusavu, Sigatoka, and Tavua).Each city or town has a council comprising between 8 and 20 members, elected for three-year terms, although the government announced legislation on 15 February 2006 to extend the term to four years.
Lautoka City Indian Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. Established by the 1997 Constitution , it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999 , 2001 , and 2006 .
Dissolved in April 2005 and merged into the new National Alliance Party of Fiji; FijiFirst - a secular party founded in 2014 by dictator Frank Bainimarama to contest elections. Governed Fiji for 8 years, before losing power at the 2022 election. Dissolved in 2024 after its constitution was found to not contain legally-required dispute ...
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 were postponed until 12 November due to the death of two candidates; the death of a candidate in Lautoka also resulted in the poll postponement in one of the four wards.
Toggle Election results subsection. 1.1 1999. 1.2 2001. 1.3 2001. 2 Sources. ... Lautoka City (Open Constituency, Fiji) is a former electoral district in Fiji. It is ...
[1] [2] The Legislative Council elected in 1966 had 36 members. Twenty-five seats represented communal constituencies (nine indigenous Fijians, nine Indians, and seven General Electors ( Europeans , Chinese, and other minorities), elected on closed electoral rolls by voters registered as members of their respective ethnic groups.
Local government. Recent local elections. 2002; ... Local elections were held in Fiji on 5 November 1972, ... In Lautoka, the National ...
General elections were held in Fiji on 14 December 2022 to elect the 55 members of Parliament. [1] [2] The elections took place following the passage of controversial electoral amendments. In addition to a struggling economy, significant campaign issues included the national debt, ethnic tensions and tackling poverty.