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- ↑ Election results by the count
- ↑ FLP names first lot of candidates
- ↑ Chand heads towns Archived July 26,2011,at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "SAVUSAVU TOWN DECLARED SMOKE FREE ZONE". The Fijian Government. Department of Information. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
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