1992 Fijian general election

General elections were held in Fiji between 23 and 30 May 1992.[1] It was the first election held since two military coups in 1987 had severed Fiji's 113-year-old constitutional links with the British Monarchy, and later Fijian Monarchy, and ushered in a republic.

1992 Fijian general election

← 1987 23–30 May 1992 1994 →

All 70 seats in the House of Representatives
35 seats needed for a majority
  First party Second party Third party
 
NFP
Leader Sitiveni Rabuka Harish Sharma Mahendra Chaudhry
Party SVT NFP Labour
Seats won 30 14 13
Popular vote 154,656 56,951 56,948
Percentage 43.64% 16.07% 16.07%

  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Sakeasi Butadroka Osea Gavidi Max Olsson
Party FNUF STV GVP
Seats won 3 2 5
Popular vote 29,722 9,321 5,079
Percentage 8.39% 2.63% 1.43%

Prime Minister before election

Kamisese Mara

Elected Prime Minister

Sitiveni Rabuka
SVT

The 1992 elections were the first to be held under the new electoral system, which was deliberately biased in favour of ethnic Fijians. National constituencies, elected by universal suffrage and comprising almost half of the House of Representatives under the 1970 constitution, were abolished, and for the first time, all members of the House of Representatives were elected from communal constituencies on closed electoral rolls, for registered members of a particular ethnic group. 37 seats were allocated to ethnic Fijians and only 27 to Indo-Fijians, despite the near-equality of their numbers in the population; one seat was reserved for a representative of the Rotuman Islanders, with five constituencies reserved for General electors (an omnibus category for various minorities including Europeans, Chinese, and Banaban Islanders).

The Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei led by Sitiveni Rabuka, who had instigated the 1987 coups, won 30 of the 38 seats reserved for ethnic Fijians and Rotuman; the remaining eight were won by the extremist Fijian Nationalist Party of Sakeasi Butadroka (three seats), the Soqosoqo ni Taukei ni Vanua (two seats) and independents (three). The 27 Indo-Fijian electorates were almost equally divided between the National Federation Party (which won 14 seats) and the Fiji Labour Party (13). All five of the "general electorates" were won by the General Voters Party.

Results

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PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei154,65643.6430New
National Federation Party56,95116.0714
Fiji Labour Party56,94816.0713
Fijian Nationalist United Front29,7228.393+3
All Nationals Congress28,1897.950New
Soqosoqo ni Taukei ni Vanua9,3212.632+2
General Voters Party5,0791.435New
Fijian Indian Liberal Party1,7830.500New
Independents11,7083.303+3
Total354,357100.0070+18
Valid votes236,59998.74
Invalid/blank votes3,0131.26
Total votes239,612100.00
Registered voters/turnout316,76575.64
Source: Nohlen et al.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 ISBN 0-19-924959-8