Nadi Urban Indian Communal is a former electoral division of Fiji, one of 19 communal constituencies reserved for Indo-Fijians. Established by the 1997 Constitution, it came into being in 1999 and was used for the parliamentary elections of 1999, 2001, and 2006. (Of the remaining 52 seats, 27 were reserved for other ethnic communities and 25, called Open Constituencies, were elected by universal suffrage). The electorate covered the City of Nadi in the western part of the main island of Viti Levu, and included Nadi International Airport, Fiji's main airport.

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).

1999

1999 Fijian general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Amjad Ali 6,829 65.69
NFP Dorsami Naidu 3,567 34.31

2001

2001 Fijian general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Amjad Ali 6,169 69.57 +3.88
NFP Dorsami Naidu 2,649 29.45 -4.86
New Labour Unity Party Suresh Chandra Verma 178 0.98 New
Labour hold Swing +3.88

2006

2006 Fijian general election
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Labour Gunasagaran Gounder 8,108 76.06 +6.49
NFP Sushila Rameshwar 2,151 20.18 -9.27
SDL Mohammed Zarib 266 2.50
Independent Kamlesh Prasad 120 1.13
Independent Sanmogam Sanu 15 0.14
Labour hold Swing +6.49

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