Live blog: Bainimarama takes early lead in Fiji’s election

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Voters in the Fiji general election. Photo: Wansolwara


Pacific Scoop’s Alistar Kata reports from yesterday’s voting.

By Alistar Kata of Pacific Scoop in Suva

Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama took an early lead in provisional results in the Fiji general election last night.

With provisional results from 170 out of 2025 polling stations processed, the Fiji First leader topped the five best-placed candidates with 13,946 votes, well ahead of rival National Federation Party’s Vane Koroi (5669) and SODELPA’s Ro Teimumu Kepa with 4090.

But in the party stakes, Fiji First had a narrow lead with 48.3 percent while SODELPA had 42.7 percent.

This is the first election in Fiji since Bainimarama staged a military coup in 2006.

Alistar Kata is a member of the student journalism team covering the Fiji elections as part of their Asia-Pacific Journalism course at the Pacific Media Centre. She is on internship with Wansolwara while her colleagues are Mads Anneberg with the Republika in Suva and Thomas Carnegie and Pacific Media Watch editor Anna Majavu with the PMC in Auckland. 

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  1. Looks like Fiji First are going to be outright winners.

    I am so happy for Fiji.

    Now Bainimarama can run his country ‘freely’. No more pandering to the corruption of the Indians within his former govt.

    The Fiji people will expect to see a lot of new Fijian faces in a ‘new and fresh’ govt – otherwise he will only get this one term.

    Fiji is speaking LOUD, and this is great!

    opinion.

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