Nadi (Open Constituency, Fiji)

Content sourced from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.

Nadi Open was a voting district in Fiji, one of 25 open divisions where all eligible voters could vote. It existed from 1999 to 2006, created by the 1997 Constitution, and was located in the western part of Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu. In 2013, a new constitution abolished all constituencies and introduced proportional representation, with the whole country voting as one electorate. In elections, primary votes are the first preferences, and the final result is calculated after redistributing votes from less-polling candidates under agreed rules (instant-runoff voting). In 2002 the High Court ruled that more than 1,000 votes had been wrongly invalidated, mostly for Prasad, and awarded him the seat.