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General elections were held in Fiji on 23 March and 10 April 1908.
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General elections were held in Fiji on 23 March and 10 April 1908.
The Legislative Council consisted of ten civil servants, six elected Europeans and two appointed Fijians. The six Europeans were elected from three constituencies; Levuka (one seat), Suva (two seats) and a "Planters" constituency covering the rest of the colony (three seats). Voting was restricted to European men aged 21 or over who were British subjects and earned at least £120 a year or owned property with a yearly value of £20.
Voting was held in Levuka and Suva on 23 March, and in the Planters constituency on 10 April.
| Constituency | Candidate | Votes | % | Notes |
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| Levuka | John Maynard Hedstrom | 29 | 47.5 | Elected |
| David Robbie | 25 | 41.0 | Unseated | |
| F. Volk | 7 | 11.5 | ||
| Planters | Leslie Edward Brown | 159 | 24.3 | Elected |
| Alfred Hancock Witherow | 155 | 23.7 | Elected | |
| Adam Coubrough | 152 | 23.2 | Re-elected | |
| James Burton Turner | 148 | 22.6 | Unseated | |
| J. McConnell | 40 | 6.1 | ||
| Suva | Henry Milne Scott | 84 | 29.4 | Elected |
| George Fox | 72 | 25.2 | Elected | |
| Simeon Lewis Lazarus | 70 | 24.5 | Unseated | |
| Henry Marks | 60 | 21.0 | Unseated | |
| Source: Ali | ||||
| Position | Member |
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| Governor | Everard im Thurn |
| Agent-General of Immigration | Arthur Robert Coates |
| Attorney General | Albert Ehrhardt |
| Chief Medical Officer | George Lynch |
| Collector of Customs | John Kenneth Murray Ross |
| Colonial Secretary | Eyre Hutson |
| Commissioner, Colo North and East | Adolph Joske |
| Commissioner of Lands | Dyson Blair |
| Commissioner of Works | William Charles Simmons |
| Inspector-General of Constabulary | Islay McOwan |
| Native Commissioner | William Sutherland |
| Fijian appointees | Joni Madraiwiwi I |
| Kadavu Levu | |
| Source: Fiji Blue Book, Fiji Elections | |
