Definitions for "Labasa"
Keywords:  fiji, vanua, levu, suffrage, electorate
Labasa (IPA:) is a town in Fiji with a population of 24,187 at the last census held in 1996.
Labasa Open is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 25 open constituencies elected by universal suffrage (the remaining 46 seats, called communal constituencies, are allocated by ethnicity). Like the other open electorates, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. The electorate covers the largest Town on the northern island of Vanua Levu.
Labasa Indian Communal is an electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 are reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, are elected by universal suffrage). The electorate covers the Town of Labasa, the largest urban centre on the northern island of Vanua Levu.