The new elections held in September resulted in a landslide win for Ratu Mara's Fijian Alliance Party, which won an unprecedented 36 seats out of 52. It was aided by the decline in support for the Fijian Nationalist Party of Sakeaki Butadroka; the xenophobic party which advocated "repatriating" Fijians of Indian descent to India had attracted 25 percent of the ethnic Fijian vote in March, splitting the ethnic Fijian vote and ironically making it possible for the Indian-dominated National Federation Party to win. More than half of those who had voted for the Fijian Nationalist Party in March, mainly to lodge a protest vote against Ratu Mara's inclusive racial policies, returned to the Alliance in September. The Alliance was also helped by the continuing disarray in the ranks of the National Federation Party.
Fiji was readmitted to the Commonwealth in October.
Fiji is one of the more developed of the Pacific island economies, although it remains a developing country with a large subsistence agriculture sector.
Fiji became the 127th member of the United Nations on October 13, 1970, and participates actively in the organization.
The results of legislative elections held in Sweden from 1973 to 2006, as well as an overview of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Swedish legislature are available in Elections to the Swedish Riksdag.
The results of legislative elections held in Norway from 1985 to 2005, as well as a description of the proportional representation system used to choose members of the Norwegian legislature are available in Elections to the Norwegian Storting.
Elections to the New Zealand House of Representatives and Elections to the German Bundestag describe the Mixed Member Proportional (MMP) representation system used in both countries, with results of parliamentary elections held in New Zealand from 1996 to 2005 and in Germany from 1972 to 2005.
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