1987 Fijian general election

none July 2016 December 2022 Fiji parliamentary 1982 Fijian general election 1982 4–11 April 1987 1992 Fijian general election 1992 All 52 seats in the House of Representatives 26 130x130px Timoci Bavadra Bavadra in Sydney, April 1988 (cropped).jpg FLP–NFP 22 seats 28 6 461,056 47.07% 5.86pp Kamisese Mara Kamisese Mara.jpg Alliance Party (Fiji) 28 seats 24 4 484,543 49.46% 2.33pp Prime Minister Kamisese Mara Alliance Party (Fiji) Timoci Bavadra Fiji Labour Party General elections were held in Fiji between 4 and 11 April 1987.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume II, p653 0-19-924959-8 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.Lal Victor 1987-12-01 The Fiji general election of 1987 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0261379487900357 Electoral Studies 6 3 249–262 10.1016/0261-3794(87)90035-7 0261-3794 subscription 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. Electoral system The 52 members of the House of Representatives were elected from two types of constituency, with candidature in each limited to one of three ethnic groups; Fijians, Indo-Fijians and General electors, generally of European or Chinese descent. Twenty-seven members were elected from communal constituencies (12 Fijians, 12 Indo-Fijians and 3 general) in which voters voted for someone of their own ethnicity, with the remaining twenty-five elected from national constituencies (10 Fijian, 10 Indo-Fijian and 5 general) in which candidature was limited by ethnicity but all registered voters in a constituency could vote for. Results Alliance Party 484543 24 −4 FLP–NFP 461056 28 +6 Fijian Nationalist Party 14484 0 0 Western United Front 8339 0 −2 National Federation Party-Koya 4462 0 New Independents 6723 0 0 22238 0 Total ballots cast 250968 353691 Nohlen et al. Aftermath Following the elections Bavadra formed a fourteen-member cabinet.Fiji's younger and smaller cabinet Pacific Islands Monthly, June 1987, p20 Bavadra cabinetPositionMinisterPrime MinisterMinister for Public ServiceMinister for Fijian AffairsMinister for Home AffairsTimoci BavadraDeputy Prime MinisterMinister for Housing and Urban AffairsMinister for InformationHarish SharmaAttorney GeneralMinister for JusticeJai Ram ReddyMinister for Agriculture, Fisheries and ForestryJoeli NacolaMinister for Communications, Transport and WorksAhmed BhamjiMinister for Education, Youth and SportTupeni BabaMinister of Finance and Economic PlanningMahendra ChaudhryMinister for Foreign Affairs and Civil AviationKrishna DattMinister for Health and Social WelfareSatendra NandanMinister for Labour and ImmigrationJoeli KalouMinister for Lands, Energy and Mineral ResourcesMosese VolavolaMinister for Trade, Industry and TourismNavin MaharajMinister of State for Cooperatives and Consumer AffairsChris HerbertMinister of State for Rural Development, Rehabilitation and ReliefTemo Sukanaivalu See also List of members of the Parliament of Fiji (1987) References Category:Elections in Fiji General Fiji Fiji