A total of 743 new overseas voters have been registered through the Fijian Elections Office’s voter registration outreach programmes conducted overseas in 2025 and 2026.
The figures were tabled in Parliament yesterday by Minister for Justice and Acting Attorney-General Siromi Turaga in response to a written question from MP Inosi Kuridrani on the FEO’s voter awareness and registration programmes.
According to the parliamentary response, 468 new voters were registered through overseas outreach in 2025, while another 275 new registrations were recorded through the 2026 programme.
In 2025, the FEO conducted registration activities in the United Kingdom, Tuvalu, Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands, Samoa, American Samoa, the United States, Solomon Islands, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia and Hawaii.
The 2026 overseas programme included Nauru, Tonga, New Zealand, Australia, the United States, Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Kiribati, Hawaii, Canada and Palau.
New Zealand recorded the highest number of new registrations during the 2026 outreach with 90, followed by Australia with 50, the United States with 43 and Canada with 41.
The figures also show that overseas registration services involved significantly more than just new voters.
In 2025, the overseas programme recorded 2,205 total registrations, comprising 468 new registrations and 1,738 corrections and replacements, as reported in the table.
For 2026, there were 1,901 total registrations, including 275 new registrations and 1,626 corrections and replacements.
Meanwhile, the FEO’s nationwide YES Outreach voter registration drive from May 4 to June 19 this year recorded 8,158 new registrations.
The nationwide drive also processed 61,723 corrections and updates and 28,091 replacements, bringing the accumulated total to 97,972 voter registration transactions.
