Fijian general election, 2014

Fijian general election, 2014

← 2006 17 September 2014
All 50 seats to the Parliament of Fiji
Registered	591,101
Turnout	84.0%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Frank Bainimarama Teimumu Kepa Biman Prasad Party FijiFirst SODELPA NFP Leader since 2014 2013 2014 Last election 0 36 0 Seats won 32 15 3 Seat change 32 21 3 Popular vote 293,714 139,857 27,066 Percentage 59.20% 28.20% 5.50%   Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party   Leader Felix Anthony Mahendra Chaudhry Sitiveni Suvaki Party PDP Labour OFP Leader since 2014 1991 2014 Last election 0 31 0 Seats won 0 0 0 Seat change 31 Popular vote 15,864 11,670 5,839 Percentage 3.20% 2.60% 1.20%   Seventh party   Leader Jagath Karunaratne Party FUPP Leader since 2014 Last election 0 Seats won 0 Seat change 0 Popular vote 1,072 Percentage 0.20%
Prime Minister before election Frank Bainimarama Independent Subsequent Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama FijiFirst

Frank Bainimarama
Independent

Frank Bainimarama
FijiFirst

General elections were held in Fiji on 17 September 2014, to select the 50 members of the Fijian parliament.

The incumbent Prime Minister, Frank Bainimarama, was re-elected. Prior to the election Bainimarama was an Independent but stood for the FijiFirst Party in 2014. The Social Democratic Liberal Party and the National Federation Party both got over 5%, the threshold for a party or independent to have seats in the parliament.

The elections were originally scheduled for March 2009, but were not held then because politicians did not agree to the People's Charter for Change, Peace and Progress. Between 2009 and 2014 many public announcements and requests were made and on 23 March 2014 the interim government announced the election would be held on 17 September 2014.

The elections were to be held under the new constitution which lowered the voting age to 18 and gave the right of multiple citizenship to Fijians for the first time.

After the Fijian military coup of 5 December 2006, the new interim prime minister Jona Senilagakali announced that elections would take place held "hopefully in 12 months, two years". Later it was made clear that none of the ministers in the interim government would be allowed to contest the elections.

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