"constituency" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Some candidates for the Indian communal constituencies stood in the election under the National Congress of Fiji banner.
- Each voter had four votes: one for 'his' communal constituency and three for the national constituencies.
- Several kinds of constituencies have existed at various times, and at present there are two: communal and open constituencies.
- In elections from 1972 through 1987, Fiji was divided into communal and national constituencies.
- On 24 June 2005, Bogileka announced that the party would concentrate on communal constituencies reserved for ethnic Fijians.
- The so-called Open electorates, unlike the communal constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage.
- The final constitutional draft established 46 communal constituencies and 25 open constituencies, which are required to be substantially equal in population.
- As the fundamental faultline in Fijian politics remains ethnic rather than ideological, the racially allocated communal constituencies generally follow predictable voting patterns.
- This change was later written into the Constitution, and allowed Ah Koy to stand for election from an ethnic Fijian communal constituency.
- The by-elections for the nine Indian communal constituencies resulted in wins for Federation Party candidates with increased majorities.
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