Belarusian parliamentary election, 2000
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Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus
on 15 October 2000, with further rounds of voting on 29 October, 18 March and 1 April. The vast majority of successful candidates, 94 of 110, were independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 61.08%.
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. 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.
Belarus
Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
on 15 October 2000, with further rounds of voting on 29 October, 18 March and 1 April. The vast majority of successful candidates, 94 of 110, were independents. Voter turnout was reported to be 61.08%.
A total of 566 candidates contested the election, only around fifty of which were opponents of President Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Lukashenko
Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been serving as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has come to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line...
. 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. 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.
Results
| Party | Round | Total seats |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Second | Third | Fourth | |||||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| Communist Party of Belarus Communist Party of Belarus The Communist Party of Belarus is a political party in Belarus, that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. It was created in 1996. The leader of the party is Tatsyana Holubeva.... |
2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | New | ||||||||
| Agrarian Party | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | –28 | ||||||||
| Republican Party of Labour and Justice | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||
| Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party The Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party is a political party in Belarus, that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.It was created in 1994. Leader of the party is Vladimir Alexandrovich.... |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||
| Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord The Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.It was created in 1997. Leader of the party is Sergey Yermak.... |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | New | ||||||||
| Party of Belarusian Communists | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –42 | ||||||||
| BSDG-NG Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly) The Belarusian Social Democratic Party is unregistered political party in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko.... |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||||||
| Republican Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Independents | 33 | 48 | 2 | 11 | 94 | –1 | ||||||||
| Invalid/blank votes | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 4,430,878 | 41 | 1,991,530 | 56 | 588,595 | 2 | 373,366 | 11 | 110 | –88 | ||||