About this election
Fiji is due to hold a general election in the window between late December 2026 and early February 2027, to renew its 55-member Parliament. Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka, whose coalition narrowly took power after the 2022 election, has indicated the vote will fall toward the end of that constitutional window. It will be the fourth election under the 2013 constitution and a major test of the multi-party coalition that ended the 16-year dominance of Frank Bainimarama and his FijiFirst party, in a Pacific island democracy whose modern history has been punctuated by military coups.
Fiji elects its single-chamber Parliament by open-list proportional representation in one nationwide constituency, using the d'Hondt method, with a 5% threshold for a party to win seats. Every candidate nationwide appears on a single ballot identified by number, and voters choose one candidate; the votes are pooled by party to allocate the seats. This unusual system, introduced in 2014, replaced the previous race-based communal rolls with a single common roll for all Fijians. A government requires the confidence of a majority — 28 of the 55 seats — and the prime minister is chosen by Parliament.
Fijian politics has been reshaped since 2022. Frank Bainimarama, who first took power in a 2006 coup and later won elections as a civilian, led FijiFirst, but the party's grip was broken by a coalition of the People's Alliance, led by Sitiveni Rabuka — himself a former coup leader turned elected prime minister — with the National Federation Party (NFP) and the Social Democratic Liberal Party (SODELPA). FijiFirst subsequently fractured and was deregistered, reshaping the opposition landscape going into 2026. Underlying Fijian politics are long-standing questions about the relationship between the indigenous iTaukei majority and the Indo-Fijian community, and debates over amending the 2013 constitution.
The December 2022 election produced a hung parliament; FijiFirst won the most seats but was kept out of power by a three-party coalition.
| Party (2022) | Vote % | Seats |
| FijiFirst | 42.55 | 26 |
| People's Alliance | 35.82 | 21 |
| National Federation Party (NFP) | 8.89 | 5 |
| SODELPA | 5.14 | 3 |
The People's Alliance (21), NFP (5) and SODELPA (3) together held 29 seats — a majority — and Sitiveni Rabuka became prime minister on 24 December 2022, ending Bainimarama's tenure.
The central questions are whether Rabuka's coalition holds together and is returned, how the opposition reorganises after the collapse of FijiFirst, and whether efforts to amend the 2013 constitution feature in the campaign. The cost of living, the economy and tourism, governance and the still-sensitive role of the military are leading issues, as is the management of Fiji's relations with larger powers in a contested Pacific.
Because Fiji uses a single national constituency, there are no regional seats to map, but support has historically varied between the iTaukei-majority interior and outer islands and the Indo-Fijian communities of the sugar-belt and urban areas around Suva and Nadi. Personal followings of leading candidates also shape the open-list result. ElectioMap will display the national party result and seat allocation as counting proceeds.
Fiji's modern politics cannot be separated from its history of military intervention: the country has experienced four coups since 1987, in 1987 (twice), 2000 and 2006, several rooted in tensions between the indigenous iTaukei majority and the Indo-Fijian community descended from indentured labourers brought under British colonial rule. The 2013 constitution, drawn up under the post-2006 government, abolished the old race-based electoral rolls in favour of a single common roll and equal citizenship, but it also entrenched protections for the military and has been criticised as difficult to amend. Debate over whether and how to revise that constitution — including the high thresholds it sets for change — has become a defining theme of the 2026 campaign, alongside questions about civil-military relations and the independence of institutions. How these constitutional questions are handled will shape Fiji's democracy well beyond the election itself.
This page will show the live national vote share and the 55-seat allocation as results are declared, once the election is called. Figures are sourced from the Fijian Elections Office and the Supervisor of Elections, which administer and certify the vote.
The election must be held in the window between roughly August 2026 and early February 2027; Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka has signalled it will fall toward the end of that window, around late December 2026 or early 2027. It renews the 55-member Parliament.
By open-list proportional representation in a single nationwide constituency, using the d'Hondt method with a 5% threshold. Every candidate appears on one numbered ballot; votes are pooled by party to allocate seats. A majority is 28 of 55 seats.
A coalition of the People's Alliance (Sitiveni Rabuka), the National Federation Party and SODELPA, formed after the 2022 election, which ended Frank Bainimarama's 16 years as prime minister. Bainimarama's FijiFirst has since been deregistered.
FijiFirst won the most seats (26, on 42.55%) but the People's Alliance (21), NFP (5) and SODELPA (3) formed a 29-seat majority coalition, and Rabuka became prime minister on 24 December 2022.
The Fijian Elections Office reports results in the days after the vote. Live national figures and the 55-seat allocation will appear on this page once the election is called and counting begins.
Compiled and reviewed by Bartłomiej Paruzel, Election Data Analyst, from official results. See our data methodology.