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2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

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Field	Value
country	Belarus
flag_year	1995
previous_election	[1995](1995-belarusian-parliamentary-election)
next_election	[2004](2004-belarusian-parliamentary-election)
seats_for_election	All 110 seats in the House of Representatives
majority_seats	56
turnout	61.08%
election_date	15 October 2000
nopercentage	yes
leader1	Viktor Chikin
party1	Communist Party of Belarus
last_election1	New
seats1	6
leader2	Mikhail Shimansky
party2	Belarusian Agrarian Party
last_election2	33
seats2	5
leader3	Anatol Niatylkin
party3	Republican Party of Labour and Justice
last_election3	1
seats3	2
leader4	Vladimir Alexandrovich
party4	Belarusian Social Sporting Party
last_election4	1
seats4	1
leader5	Sergei Gaidukevich
party5	Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus
last_election5	1
seats5	1
leader6	Leonid Sechka
party6	Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord
last_election6	New
seats6	1
leader7	–
party7	Independents
last_election7	95
seats7	94
title	Speaker of the House of Representatives
before_election	Anatoly Malofeyev
before_party	Independent (politician)
after_election	Vadim Popov
after_party	Independent (politician)

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

[[File:Belarus Parliament 2000.svg]]	Party	First round	Second round	Third round	Fourth round	Total
seats	+/–	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats	Votes	%	Seats
Communist Party of Belarus}}		Communist Party of Belarus			2			4			0			0	6	New
Belarusian Agrarian Party}}		Belarusian Agrarian Party			4			1			0			0	5	–28
Republican Party of Labour and Justice}}		Republican Party of Labour and Justice			0			2			0			0	2	+1
Belarusian Social Sporting Party}}		Belarusian Social Sporting Party			1			0			0			0	1	0
Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus}}		Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus			0			1			0			0	1	+1
Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord}}		Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord			1			0			0			0	1	New
Party of Belarusian Communists}}		Party of Belarusian Communists			0			0			0			0	0	–42
Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)}}		Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)			0			0			0			0	0	New
Republican Party (Belarus)}}		Republican Party			0			0			0			0	0	0
Independent politician}}		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](http://archive.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2027_00.htm)

References

[[Dieter Nohlen]] & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p252 {{ISBN. 978-3-8329-5609-7
Nohlen & Stöver, p261
[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/2027_00.htm Belarus: Elections held in 2000] Inter-Parliamentary Union

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