Nadi (Open Constituency, Fiji)

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Nadi Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. It was located in the western part of the main island of Viti Levu.

The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate.

Election results

In the following tables, the primary vote refers to first-preference votes cast. The final vote refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral agreements (see electoral fusion), which may be customized by the voters (see instant run-off voting).

1999

1999 Fijian general election
Party Candidate Votes %
Labour Pradhuman Rainga 7,559 42.91
NFP Manjuwati Verma 5,653 32.09
PANU Apisai Tora 3,061 17.38
VLV Jopeni Vatunitu 1,185 6.73
SVT Makelesi Lutuciri 156 0.89
Two-candidate-preferred result
Labour Pradhuman Rainga 11,773 66.84
NFP Manjuwati Verma 5,841 33.16
Labour hold

2001

2001 Fijian general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Krishna Prasad 6,245 42.75 −0.16
NFP Prem Singh 3,170 21.70 −10.39
SDL Inia Tueli 2,149 14.71 New
Bei Kai Viti Miliakere Moce 1,230 8.42 New
New Labour Unity Party Venkanna Chetty 814 5.57 New
Party of National Unity (Fiji) Arthur Sowani 673 4.61 −12.77
SVT Auvind Deo Singh 325 2.22 +1.33
Two-candidate-preferred result
NFP Prem Singh 7,344 50.28 +17.12
Labour Krishna Prasad 7,262 49.72 −17.12
Labour hold Swing -17.1

Note: On 8 February 2002 the High Court ruled that more than a thousand votes, most of them for Prasad, had been wrongly invalidated, and awarded the seat to Prasad.

2006

2006 Fijian general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Amjad Ali 8,630 46.43
SDL Shyam Sundaram 5,432 29.23
NFP Prem Singh 2,645 14.23
Party of National Unity (Fiji) Kamenieli Nawaqavonovono 476 6.44
Independent Jeremaia Lewaravu 392 2.11
UPP Josephine Raikuna Williams 389 2.09
SVT Arvind Deo Singh 237 1.23
Independent Josefa Vatunitu 0.90
Independent Pravin Jamieson 96 0.52
Independent Vero Qoro 65 0.35
Independent Rajendra Kumar 56 0.30
Three-candidate-preferred result
Labour Amjad Ali 9,688 52.13
SDL Shyam Sundaram 6,222 29.23
NFP Prem Singh 2,676 14.40
Labour hold Swing +2.41

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