2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

2000 Belarusian parliamentary election

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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 [be] Independent

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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% in the first round.^[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]