Belarusian parliamentary election, 2000

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15 October 2000

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All 110 seats in the House of Representatives

Turnout

61.08%

	First party	Second party

Party	Communist Party of Belarus	Agrarian Party
Last election		33
Seats before		0
Seats won	6	5
Seat change	6	28

	Third party	Fourth party

Party	Republican Party of Labour and Justice	Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party
Last election	1	0
Seats before	0	0
Seats won	2	1
Seat change	1

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.

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