Mr. Bainimarama’s Fiji First party has won the 2014 general election, raking 293,714 of the total 496,364 votes cast, Fiji Times reported.

President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau will preside over the swearing-in ceremony scheduled to be held at 4 p.m.

Ethnic Indians comprise 37 per cent of Fiji’s population of nearly 8,70,000.

Most of them are descendants of indentured labourers who were brought in from India between 1879 and 1916 to work in the country’s sugarcane plantations.(KH)