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.[1] The vast majority of successful candidates, 94 of 110, were independents.[2] Voter turnout was reported to be 61.08%.[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
| Party | Round | Total seats |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Second | Third | Fourth | |||||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||
| Communist Party of Belarus | 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 | +1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 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 | ||||||||
| BSDG-NG | 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 | ||||
