The party of Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama holds a commanding lead based on provisional results in the country's landmark election.
Votes from more than half the polling stations have been tallied and after 12 hours of counting FijiFirst has 60 percent of the vote.
Its nearest rival Sodelpa, which has its foundations in the party of the ousted prime minister Laisenia Qarase is sitting on 26 percent.
Nearly 340,000 votes have been counted so far, more than half of those who registered to vote.
Frank Bainimarama is well in front individually, with nearly five times the votes of the Sodelpa leader and paramount chief Ro Teimumu Kepa.
Just over 40 percent of the votes in the more populated Central and Western divisions of the country have been counted.
But just one percent of votes from the remoter Eastern division have been tallied.
This area is seen by some as a stronghold of the Sodelpa party.
Fiji is voting for a new-look parliament of 50 MPs based on proportional representation.
After regular updates throughout the night, the elections authorities say the next results are not due out until later this afternoon.
Fiji elections Photo: RNZI correspondent
The European Union has welcomed the peaceful conduct of the Fiji elections and the high turnout, including among young people, many of whom were voting for the first time.
In statement, the EU says Fiji election authorities should administer the election process in full transparency until its completion.
The European Union says it's committed to working closely with the elected government to support the consolidation of democracy in the country.
Meanwhile New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully, says he has no immediate concerns about the integrity of the elections in Fiji.
With about half the votes counted in the general election, the Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama's party has about 60-percent of the vote.
Mr McCully says though the voting system there is complicated, that doesn't mean it is not effective.
But he says he is reserving his final judgement.
"It is a complex system, if that's unduly affected the outcome, the international observers will no doubt tell us so but I haven't heard that suggestion yet."
New Zealand's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Murray McCully.
But a Fiji human rights campaigner says it's exhilarating that an election has finally taken place there but there was a lot of unfairness in the campaigning period.
Shamina Ali chairs the Fijian Coalition on Human Rights and had been pushing for years for the elections to take place after the Prime Minister Frank Bainimara suspended them in 2007.
She says most people she has spoken to say the polling was well run and seemed fair.
But she says there are still questions about the lead up.
"During campaigning there really wasn't a level playing field. There was the fear factor also, the NGOs were muzzled, stopped from commentating on anything or having an opinion on anything publicly."
The chair of the Fiji Coalition on Human Rights, Shamima Ali.
