| Country: | Belarus |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Flag Year: | 1995 |
| Previous Election: | 1995 |
| Next Election: | 2004 |
| 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 |
| Speaker of the House of Representatives | |
| Before Election: | Anatoly Malofeyev |
| Before Party: | Independent (politician) |
| 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.[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.
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]
| Party | First round | Second round | Third round | Fourth round | Total seats | +/– | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | |||||
| bgcolor= | Communist Party of Belarus | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | New | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Belarusian Agrarian Party | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | –28 | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Republican Party of Labour and Justice | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | +1 | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Belarusian Social Sporting Party | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | +1 | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | New | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Party of Belarusian Communists | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | –42 | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | New | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Republican Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||||||
| bgcolor= | Independents | 33 | 48 | 2 | 11 | 94 | –1 | |||||||||
| align=left colspan=2 | Total | 41 | 56 | 2 | 11 | 110 | –88 | |||||||||
| align=left colspan=2 | Total votes | 4,430,878 | – | 3,703,345 | – | 588,595 | – | 373,366 | – | |||||||
| align=left colspan=2 | Registered voters/turnout | 7,254,752 | 61.08 | 3,703,345 | 51.78 | 810,502 | 72.62 | 677,903 | 55.08 | |||||||
| align=left colspan=16 | Source: Nohlen & Stöver, IPU | |||||||||||||||