Macuata East (Open Constituency, Fiji)
Macuata Open is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies that were elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, were allocated by ethnicity). Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. The electorate was located in north-eastern Vanua Levu, and has been a stronghold of the Fiji Labour Party (FLP) since its inception. The 2013 Constitution promulgated by the Military-backed interim government abolished all constituencies and established a form of  proportional representation, with the entire country voting as a single electorate. Election results. In the following tables, the "primary vote" refers to first-preference votes cast. The "final vote" refers to the final tally after votes for low-polling candidates have been progressively redistributed to other candidates according to pre-arranged electoral agreements (see "electoral fusion"), which may be customized by the voters (see "instant run-off voting").