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 BELARUS

Legislative elections: House of Representatives, 4-year term, two-tiered single-member majority system
           · President: Alexander Lukashenko · Prime Minister: Sergey Sidorski · Government: BR, KPB, AP, LDP (informal)

Party Ideology, Affiliation, Founding 2008 Seats 2004 Seats
Belaja Rus' (BR)
White Russia
(all deputies were elected as independents)
Centrism; Statism
 
-
2007

-

51 - -
Kommunističeskaja Partija Belarusi (KPB)
Communist Party of Belarus
Communism; Marxism-Leninism, Russian-Belarussian unionism KPSS, IMCWP
1996
- 6 - 8
Agrarnaja Partija (AP)
Agrarian Party
Agrarianism; Socialism
 
-
1992
- 1 - 3
Liberal'no-Demokratičeskaja Partija (LDP)
Liberal-Democratic Party
Nationalism; Right-wing populism, Russian-Belarussian unionism -
1994
 - - - 1
Ob'edinennye Demokratičeskie Sily (ODS)
United Democratic Forces
(2004: NKPP)
Broad opposition alliance 
 
-
2005
- - - -
Belaruskaja Partija Levych 'Spravedlivyj Mir' (SM)
Belarusian Left Party 'Just World' (former PKB)
Socialism
 
EL
1991
- - - -
Ob'edinennaja Graždanskaja Partija (OGP)
United Civic Party
Liberal conservatism
 
EPPo, IDUa
1995
- - - -
Belaruskaja Social-Demokratičeskaja Partija 'Hramada' (BSDP)
Belarusian Social-Democratic Party 'Community'
Social democracy
 
-
2005 (hist. 1902)
- - - -
Partija Belaruski Narodny Front (PBNF)
Party Belarusian People's Front
Conservatism; Christian democracy
 
EPPo, CDI, IDUa
1988
- - - -
Belaruskaja Partija Truda (BPT)
Belarusian Labour Party  (banned in 2004)
Social democracy
 
-
1993
- - - -
Independents - - - 52 - 98
Others - - - - - -
Total - - - 110 - 110

Turnout

- - 76,7% 90,1%

 © 2008 Wolfram Nordsieck. Note: The elections failed to meet international standards for democratic elections (http://www.osce.org).
Source: Inter-Parliamentary Union (http://www.ipu.org). Archive: Elections 1995-2000.