2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

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2000 Belarusian parliamentary election
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  1995 15 October 2000 2004  

All 110 seats in the House of Representatives
56 seats needed for a majority
Turnout61.08%
PartyLeaderSeats+/–
CPB Viktor Chikin 6New
BAP Mikhail Shimansky 5−28
RPTS Anatol Niatylkin 2+1
BSSP Vladimir Alexandrovich 10
LDPB Sergei Gaidukevich 10
SDPNZ Leonid Sechka 1New
Independents 94−1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker of the House of Representatives beforeSpeaker of the House of Representatives after
Anatoly Malofeyev
Independent
Vadim Popov
Independent

Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 15 October 2000, with further rounds of voting on 29 October, 18 March and 1 April. [1] The vast majority of successful candidates, 94 of 110, were independents. [2] Voter turnout was reported to be 61.08% in the first round. [3]

A total of 566 candidates contested the election, only around fifty of which were opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko. Opposition parties called for a boycott, criticising the government's control of the state media. In response, the Department of Justice stated that anyone calling for a boycott could receive a jail sentence of up to two years, and several activists were detained. [3] Although a Russian delegation claimed the elections were free and fair, other international observers disagreed, noting concerns about the treatment of opposition candidates, a possible inflation of voter turnout and falsified and destroyed ballot papers. [3]

Results

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PartyFirst roundSecond roundThird roundFourth roundTotal
seats
+/–
Votes%SeatsVotes%SeatsVotes%SeatsVotes%Seats
Communist Party of Belarus 24006New
Belarusian Agrarian Party 41005–28
Republican Party of Labour and Justice 02002+1
Belarusian Social Sporting Party 100010
Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus 01001+1
Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord 10001New
Party of Belarusian Communists 00000–42
Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly) 00000New
Republican Party 000000
Independents334821194–1
Total4156211110–88
Total votes4,430,8783,703,345588,595373,366
Registered voters/turnout7,254,75261.083,703,34551.78810,50272.62677,90355.08
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU

References

  1. Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p252 ISBN   978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. Nohlen & Stöver, p261
  3. 1 2 3 Belarus: Elections held in 2000 Inter-Parliamentary Union