2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

15 October 2000
All 110 seats in the House of Representatives 56 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	61.08%
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 Independent

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% in the first round.

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.

Results

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