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2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

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2000 Belarusian parliamentary election
Belarus
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All 110 seats in the House of Representatives
56 seats needed for a majority
Turnout61.08%
Party Leader Seats +/–
CPB Viktor Chikin 6 New
BAP Mikhail Shimansky 5 −28
RPTS Anatol Niatylkin 2 +1
BSSP Vladimir Alexandrovich 1 0
LDPB Sergei Gaidukevich 1 0
SDPNZ Leonid Sechka 1 New
Independents 94 −1
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
Speaker of the House of Representatives before Speaker of the House of Representatives after
Anatoly Malofeyev
Independent
Vadim Popov [be]
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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Party First round Second round Third round Fourth round Total
seats
+/–
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Communist Party of Belarus 2 4 0 0 6 New
Belarusian Agrarian Party 4 1 0 0 5 –28
Republican Party of Labour and Justice 0 2 0 0 2 +1
Belarusian Social Sporting Party 1 0 0 0 1 0
Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus 0 1 0 0 1 +1
Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord 1 0 0 0 1 New
Party of Belarusian Communists 0 0 0 0 0 –42
Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly) 0 0 0 0 0 New
Republican Party 0 0 0 0 0 0
Independents 33 48 2 11 94 –1
Total 41 56 2 11 110 –88
Total votes 4,430,878 3,703,345 588,595 373,366
Registered voters/turnout 7,254,752 61.08 3,703,345 51.78 810,502 72.62 677,903 55.08
Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU

References

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