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- Fijian_general_election,_1987 abstract "General elections were held in Fiji between 4 and 11 April 1987. It was historic in that it marked the first electoral transition of power in Fijian history. The Alliance Party (Fiji) of the longtime Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, was defeated by a multiracial coalition, consisting of the Fiji Labour Party (contesting the election for the first time), the Indo-Fijian-dominated National Federation Party, and two smaller parties, the Western United Front and the Fiji Nationalist Party. In the House of Representatives, the coalition won a total of 28 seats to the Alliance's 24, and Dr Timoci Bavadra, the leader of the coalition, became Prime Minister.Bavadra's 28 member Parliamentary caucus included only 7 ethnic Fijians, all of them elected with predominantly Indo-Fijian support from "national" as opposed to "communal" electorates. (Fiji then had a complex voting system, allocating ethnic Fijians and Indo-Fijians 22 seats each, with a further 8 reserved for Europeans, Chinese, and other minorities. 12 of the representatives for both indigenous Fijians and Indo-Fijians group represented "communal" constituencies, elected from closed electoral rolls, while the other 10 represented "national" constituencies, elected by universal suffrage; the 8 minority seats comprised 3 communal and 5 national constituencies). Only six ethnic Fijians, including Dr Bavadra, were appointed to the new cabinet, as opposed to seven Into-Fijians and minority representative. Effective Indo-Fijian domination of the government caused widespread resentment among the ethnic Fijian community, and after less than a month in office, the new government was deposed in on May 14, 1987 in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant-Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.".
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- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Alliance_Party_(Fiji).
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Category:1987_elections_in_Oceania.
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- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Category:Elections_in_Fiji.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Communal_constituencies.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Electoral_roll.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Fiji.
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- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Fijians.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink House_of_Representatives_of_Fiji.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Indians_in_Fiji.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Kamisese_Mara.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink National_Federation_Party.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink National_constituencies.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Prime_Minister_of_Fiji.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Sitiveni_Rabuka.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Timoci_Bavadra.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Western_United_Front.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLink Western_United_Front_(Fiji).
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "1987 election".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "1987 elections".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "1987 general election".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "1987".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "April 1987".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fijian general election, 1987".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "General election".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "Parliamentary elections".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "an Indo-Fijian dominated government was elected".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "election of 1987".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "election".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "elections".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "general election".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "national election".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "parliamentary election".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageWikiLinkText "the election of an Indo-Fijian dominated government".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 hasPhotoCollection Fijian_general_election,_1987.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Fijian_elections.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Politics_of_Fiji.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 subject Category:1987_elections_in_Oceania.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 subject Category:1987_in_Fiji.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 subject Category:Elections_in_Fiji.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 comment "General elections were held in Fiji between 4 and 11 April 1987. It was historic in that it marked the first electoral transition of power in Fijian history. The Alliance Party (Fiji) of the longtime Prime Minister, Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, was defeated by a multiracial coalition, consisting of the Fiji Labour Party (contesting the election for the first time), the Indo-Fijian-dominated National Federation Party, and two smaller parties, the Western United Front and the Fiji Nationalist Party.".
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 label "Fijian general election, 1987".
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- Fijian_general_election,_1987 wasDerivedFrom Fijian_general_election,_1987?oldid=672125213.
- Fijian_general_election,_1987 isPrimaryTopicOf Fijian_general_election,_1987.