Vavaʻu Nobles' constituency

The constituency as such did not exist for the first Assembly in 1875. At that time, there were twenty nobles in all the kingdom, and they all sat in the Assembly, along with twenty elected peoples' representatives; the islands of Vavaʻu were associated with four titles of nobility. As the number of titles of nobility was increased by successive monarchs, a constitutional amendment in 1914 provided that the nobles would henceforth elect seven among them to represent them; the number of peoples' representatives was also decreased to seven.[3] The nobles' constituency of Vavaʻu, as such, may have been established at this time.

Records of elections are sparse. In the 1996 general election, the Honourable Fulivai and the Honourable Veikune were elected; there is no further information.[4] Nor is there any information for the 1999, 2002 or 2005 general election results. In the 2008 election, before nobles were restricted to voting only in the constituency associated with their lands, fifteen votes were cast; Honourable Luani and Honourable Tuʻilakepa were elected with three votes each.[5] Lord Luani died in office in May 2010, and it was thus his successor to the title who voted in the November 2010 election.[6] With the number of voters reduced to eight, the electorate was split evenly between two nobles, who were thus both elected.[7][8]