1953 Fijian general election

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'''General elections''' were held in [[Fiji]] in 1953.

==Electoral system==
The [[Legislative Council of Fiji|Legislative Council]] consisted of 33 members, including 17 'official' members who were civil servants, fifteen 'unofficial' members (five Europeans, five Fijians and five [[Indo-Fijians]]), and the [[Governor of Fiji|Governor]] sitting as President of the Council.<ref name=FEA>[http://bit.ly/2EJ28sa 1953 Legislative Council Election] Fiji Elections Archive</ref>

For Europeans and Indo-Fijians, three of the five representatives were elected from single-member constituencies, with the other two appointed by the Governor. All five Fijian members were appointed from a list of ten candidates submitted by the [[Great Council of Chiefs]].<ref name=FEA/>

Voting for Europeans remained restricted to men aged 21 or over who had been born to European parents (or a European father and was able to read, speak and write English), who were British subjects and had been continuously resident in Fiji for 12 months, and who either owned at least £20 of freehold or leasehold property or had an annual income of at least £120.<ref name=FEA/> For Indo-Fijians, eligibility was also restricted to men aged 21 or over. They had to be a British subject or from British India, have lived continuously in the Fiji for at least two years, be able to read or write in English, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hindi, Tamil, Telegu or Urdu, and for the previous six months, have either owned property with an annual value of five years, had a net annual cash income of at least £75, or held a Government or municipal licence worth at least £5 annually.<ref name=FEA/>

In both ethnic categories, civil servants were barred from voting.<ref name=FEA/>

==Results==
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right
!Constituency
!Candidate
!Votes
!%
!Notes
|-
!colspan=5|European members
|-
|align=left rowspan=3|Eastern||align=left|[[Harold Brockett Gibson]]||227|| ||align=left|Re-elected
|-
|align=left|[[Fred Archibald]]||210|| ||
|-
|align=left|[[William Edmund Willoughby-Tottenham]]||20|| ||
|-
|align=left|Northern and Western||align=left|[[Maurice Scott]]||colspan=2 align=center|Unopposed||align=left|Re-elected
|-
|align=left rowspan=3|Southern||align=left|[[John Falvey]]||487|| ||align=left|Elected
|-
|align=left|James Burton Turner||238|| ||
|-
|align=left|Charles Phillips||89|| ||
|-
!colspan=5|Indo-Fijian members
|-
|align=left rowspan=2|Eastern||align=left|[[James Madhavan]]||886|| ||align=left|Re-elected
|-
|align=left|Odin Ramrakha||706|| ||
|-
|align=left rowspan=5|Northern and Western||align=left|[[Ayodhya Prasad]]||2,718|| ||align=left|Elected
|-
|align=left|[[A. D. Patel]]||1,919|| ||
|-
|align=left|[[Tulsi Ram Sharma]]||280|| ||align=left|Unseated
|-
|align=left|Babubhai Patel||54|| ||
|-
|align=left|Hari Shankar||5|| ||
|-
|align=left rowspan=3|Southern||align=left|[[Vishnu Deo]]||2,365|| ||align=left|Re-elected
|-
|align=left|Hari Charan||1,288|| ||
|-
|align=left|Hari Charan Akheel||12|| ||
|-
|align=left colspan=5|Source: [http://bit.ly/2ELUvC6 Fiji Elections]
|}

===Nominated members===
{| class=wikitable
!Europeans
|-
|[[Stanley Cowled]]
|-
|W.G. Johnson
|-
!Fijians
|-
|[[Edward Cakobau]]
|-
|[[George Cakobau]]
|-
|[[Kamisese Mara]]
|-
|[[Lala Sukuna]]
|-
!Indo-Fijians
|-
|[[K. S. Reddy]]
|-
|Abdul Samad
|-
|Source: [http://bit.ly/2ELUvC6 Fiji Elections]
|}

==References==




[[Category:1953 elections in Oceania|Fiji]]
[[Category:1953 in Fiji]]
[[Category:Elections in Fiji]]

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