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'''Summary of the 6-13 May 2006 Fiji House of Representatives election results |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" ! align="left" colspan="2" width=350|Parties ! Votes ! % ! Seats ! +/- |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (SDL) | 342,352 | 44.59 | 36 | +2 |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|Fiji Labour Party (FLP) | 300,797 | 39.18 | 31 | +4 |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|National Federation Party (NFP) | 47,615 | 6.20 | 0 | -1 |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|National Alliance Party of Fiji (NAPF) | 22,504 | 2.93 | 0 | |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|United Peoples Party (UPP) | 6,474 | 0.84 | 2 | +1 |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|Party of National Unity (PANU) | 6,226 | 0.81 | 0 | |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party (NVTLP) | 3,657 | 0.48 | 0 | |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|Soqosoqo ni Vakavulewa ni Taukei (SVT) | 238 | 0.03 | 0 | |- | align="center"| | align="left"|National Democratic Party (NDP) | 123 | 0.02 | 0 | |- | align="center"| | align="left"|Party of Truth (POTT) | 51 | 0.01 | 0 | |- | align="center"| | align="left"|Social Liberal Multicultural Party (SLM) | 49 | 0.01 | 0 | |- | align="center"|

| align="left"|Coalition of Independent Nationals (COIN) | 20 | 0.00 | 0 | |- | align="center"| | align="left"|Justice and Freedom Party (JFP) | 18 | 0.00 | 0 | |- | align="center"| | align="left"|Independents | 37,571 | 4.89 | 2 | |- | align="center"| | align="left"|New Labour Unity Party |colspan=2|Didn't contest | 0 | -2 |-style="background:#E9E9E9;" ! align="left" colspan="2"|Total ! 767,695 ! 100.0 ! align="center" colspan="2"|71 |- |colspan=7|Source: [Elections Office of Fiji]. The former Conservative Alliance, with six seats merged into the SDL. SDL got two seats less then SDL and CA together. |}

2001 election

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'''Summary of the 24 August, 2 and 19 September 2001 House of Representatives of Fiji election results |- !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=left valign=top width=400|Parties !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Votes !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|% !style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=right|Seats |- |align=left valign=top|Fiji Labour Party |valign="top"|FLP |valign="top"|34.8 |valign="top"|27 |- |align=left valign=top|Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua (United Fiji Party) |valign="top"|SDL |valign="top"|26.0 |valign="top"|32 |- |align=left valign=top|National Federation Party |valign="top"|NFP |valign="top"|10.1 |valign="top"|1 |- |align=left valign=top|Conservative Alliance (Matanitu Vanua) |valign="top"|MV |valign="top"|9.9 |valign="top"|6 |- |align=left valign=top|Fijian Political Party (Soqosoqo ni Vakavatuwa ni Taukei) |valign="top"|SVT |valign="top"|5.5 |valign="top"|- |- |align=left valign=top|New Labour Unity Party |valign="top"|NLUP |valign="top"|4.5 |valign="top"|2 |- |align=left valign=top|Protector of Fiji (Bai kei Viti) |valign="top"|BKVi |valign="top"|2.2 |valign="top"|- |- |align=left valign=top|Soqosoqo ni Taukei (Fijian Association Party) |valign="top"|FAP |valign="top"|1.3 |valign="top"|- |- |align=left valign=top|Party of National Unity |valign="top"|PANU |valign="top"|1.2 |valign="top"|- |- |align=left valign=top|United General Party |valign="top"|UGP |valign="top"|0.5 |valign="top"|1 |- |align=left valign=top|Non-partisans |valign="top"|- |valign="top"|2.7 |valign="top"|2 |- |align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total (turnout 78.9 %) |width="75" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"| |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|  |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|71 |- |align=left colspan=4|Source: UNDP |}

Elections since 1966

Note: The following statistics show the number of seats in the House of Representatives won by particular political parties in general elections since 1966. The Year at the top of each column links to a main article about the election held that year.

Party 1966 1972 03/1977 09/1977 1982 1987 1992 1994 1999 2001
All Nationals Congress Party
1 1
Christian Democratic Alliance
3 0
Conservative Alliance
6
Fijian Alliance 27 33 24 36 28 24
Fijian Association Party
5 11 0
Fijian Nationalist Party
1
2
Fijian Political Party
36 33 8 0
Fiji Labour Party
13 7 37 28
General Voters Party
4 4
National Federation Party 9 19 26 15 22
14 20 0 0
NFP/FLP coalition
28
Nationalist Vanua Tako Lavo Party
1
New Labour Unity Party
2
Party of National Unity
4
United General Party
2 1
Western United Front
2
United Fiji Party
32
Independents
1
5 2
TOTAL 36 52 52 52 52 52 70 70 71 71

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