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Tonga's Supervisor of Elections says nearly 50,000 people have registered to vote in November's election.

People under 30 make up the biggest proportion of voters going to the polls in Fiji today.

Thousands of Fijians are voting in the country's first election since the 2006 coup.

Polling booths are due to open at 7.30 this morning in Fiji's first election since the 2006 coup.

Papua New Guinea's Foreign Minister says to his knowledge his government received no formal invitation from Fiji to send observers for today's election.

Ballot boxes have been delivered to the more than 1400 polling stations set up in Fiji in preparation for tomorrow's vote. Police say more than 3000 officers will assist with security.

Fiji police commissioner says his officers have prepared for the polls and won't hesitate to call in the military if law and order breaks down.

The Fiji Broadcasting Corporation has defied the regime's ban on political advertising in the lead-up to tomorrow's general election.

Fiji election workers have started preparing polling stations before tomorrow's vote.

The Green Party has dismissed talk from New Zealand First that it could form a Government with the Labour Party alone following the general election.

Questions have been raised in Fiji about the continued display of public notices with large photos of the Prime Minister during a so-called blackout on campaign advertising.

Fiji's media and the general public have been reminded that the heavy penalties for breaching the electoral decree this week also apply to social media.

National is again in the box seat with 48.6% in the four-poll average - enough to govern alone. The surveys include a Fairfax poll published in the Sunday Star Times.

There has been a good turn-out in early voting in Fiji's election.

Saying you don't know enough is a poor excuse for not voting in the age of the internet.

What are the parties' policies on tertiary education.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has responded to an accusation by the Maori Party warning it could get rid of Maori seats if tangata whenua do not vote carefully.

A legal expert says a decree provision in Fiji which prohibits any person from communicating political messages in the two days leading up to polling tomorrow is unprecedented.

Police in Fiji say they will not tolerate any breach of the law in the run-up to the elections on Wednesday - the first poll in the Pacific nation in eight years.