Nasinu Indian Communal is a former
electoral division of
Fiji
Fiji ( , ,; fj, Viti, ; Fiji Hindi: फ़िजी, ''Fijī''), officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists ...
, one of 19
communal constituencies
{{Politics of Fiji
Communal constituencies were the most durable feature of the Fijian electoral system. In communal constituencies, electors enrolled as ethnic Fijians, Indo-Fijians, Rotuman Islanders, or General electors (Europeans, Chinese ...
reserved for
Indo-Fijians. Established by the
1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the
parliamentary elections
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of
1999
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,
2001
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, and
2006
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. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 were reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called
Open Constituencies, were elected by
universal suffrage). The electorate covered the
Town of
Nasinu, Fiji's second-largest urban centre, north of
Suva
Suva () is the capital and largest city of Fiji. It is the home of the country's largest metropolitan area and serves as its major port. The city is located on the southeast coast of the island of Viti Levu, in Rewa Province, Central Divi ...
.
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
Electoral fusion is an arrangement where two or more political parties on a ballot list the same candidate, pooling the votes for that candidate. It is distinct from the process of electoral alliances in that the political parties remain separat ...
''), which may be customized by the voters (see ''
instant run-off voting'').
1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
2001
The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
2006
File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ...
Sources
Psephos - Adam Carr's electoral archive
{{Electoral divisions of Fiji