2001 Belarusian presidential election

2001 Belarusian presidential election

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Turnout83.86%
 
Nominee Alexander Lukashenko Uładzimir Hančaryk
Party Independent Independent
Popular vote 4,666,680 965,261
Percentage 77.39% 16.01%

Results by region
Lukashenko:      55–60%      75–80%      80–85%      85–90%

President before election

Alexander Lukashenko
Independent

Elected President

Alexander Lukashenko
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 9 September 2001.[1] The election should have been held in 1999, but a revised constitution adopted in 1996 extended incumbent Alexander Lukashenko's term for another two years.

Lukashenko was re-elected with 77.4% of the vote over two minor candidates. Voter turnout was 84%.[2] A senior official for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe noted that the pre-election environment was "not democratic" and would not describe it as "free and fair".[3]

  1. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p252 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  2. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p262
  3. ^ Belarus vote 'neither free nor fair' BBC News, 10 September 2001