2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

none Belarus 1995 1995 2004 All 110 seats in the House of Representatives 56 61.08% 15 October 2000 yes Viktor Chikin Communist Party of Belarus New 6 Mikhail Shimansky Belarusian Agrarian Party 33 5 Anatol Niatylkin Republican Party of Labour and Justice 1 2 Vladimir Alexandrovich Belarusian Social Sporting Party 1 1 Sergei Gaidukevich Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus 1 1 Leonid Sechka Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord New 1 – Independents 95 94 Speaker of the House of Representatives Anatoly Malofeyev Independent (politician) Vadim Popov 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.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p252 978-3-8329-5609-7 The vast majority of successful candidates, 94 of 110, were independents.Nohlen & Stöver, p261 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.Belarus: Elections held in 2000 Inter-Parliamentary Union 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.svgPartyFirst roundSecond roundThird roundFourth roundTotalseats+/–Votes%SeatsVotes%SeatsVotes%SeatsVotes%Seats Communist Party of Belarus 2 4 0 06New Belarusian Agrarian Party 4 1 0 05–28 Republican Party of Labour and Justice 0 2 0 02+1 Belarusian Social Sporting Party 1 0 0 010 Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus 0 1 0 01+1 Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord 1 0 0 01New Party of Belarusian Communists 0 0 0 00–42 Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly) 0 0 0 00New Republican Party 0 0 0 000 Independents 33 48 2 1194–1Total 41 56 2 11110–88Total votes4,430,878– 3,703,345– 588,595– 373,366–Registered voters/turnout7,254,75261.083,703,34551.78810,50272.62677,90355.08Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU References Belarus Parliament Category:Parliamentary elections in Belarus Belarus Category:Election and referendum articles with incomplete results