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Parliamentary elections were held in Tajikistan on 27 February 2000, with a second round in 11 of the 41 constituencies on 12 March. [1] The result was a victory for the People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan, which won 36 of the 63 seats. [2] Voter turnout was 93%.
Party | National | Constituency | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
People's Democratic Party of Tajikistan | 1,741,540 | 65.10 | 15 | 21 | 36 | +31 | |||
Communist Party of Tajikistan | 547,076 | 20.45 | 5 | 8 | 13 | –47 | |||
Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan | 196,105 | 7.33 | 2 | 0 | 2 | New | |||
Democratic Party | 94,963 | 3.55 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Socialist Party of Tajikistan | 37,728 | 1.41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Justice Party of Tajikistan | 35,414 | 1.32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||
Independents | 10 | 10 | –103 | ||||||
Against all | 22,322 | 0.83 | – | – | – | ||||
Vacant | 2 | – | |||||||
Total | 2,675,148 | 100.00 | 22 | 39 | 63 | –118 | |||
Valid votes | 2,675,148 | 99.71 | |||||||
Invalid/blank votes | 7,862 | 0.29 | |||||||
Total votes | 2,683,010 | 100.00 | |||||||
Registered voters/turnout | 2,873,832 | 93.36 | |||||||
Source: Nohlen et al. |
Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. It has an area of 142,326 km2 (54,952 sq mi) and an estimated population of 9,750,065 people. Dushanbe is the country's capital and largest city. It is bordered by Afghanistan to the south, Uzbekistan to the west, Kyrgyzstan to the north, and China to the east. It is separated narrowly from Pakistan by Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor. Tajiks form the ethnic majority in the country and their national language is Tajik; a Persian language that is closely related to the mutually intelligible dialects of Farsi and Dari of Iran and Afghanistan.
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