Belarusian parliamentary election, 1995
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Parliamentary elections were held in Belarus on 14 May 1995 alongside a multi-question referendum, with further rounds on 28 May, 29 November and 10 December.[1] The majority of candidates elected were independents, although 62 seats remained unfilled due to insufficient voter turnout. A total of 2,348 candidates and 22 parties contested the election, around a thousand of which were independents.[2] After the planned two rounds, only 119 of the 260 seats had been filled due to turnouts being too low in some areas. As this was well short of the 174 needed for a quorum, an additional two rounds were necessary. By the fourth round a quorum was reached, and although further rounds of voting were planned for 1996 to fill the remaining seats, following the constitutional amendments made following the referendum and the subsequent formation of a new National Assembly, they were not held.[3]
Foreign observers noted that the elections were not free and fair.[2]
Results
| Party | Round | Total seats | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First | Second | Third | Fourth | ||||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||
| Belarusian Party of Communists | 3 | 24 | 6 | 10 | 43 | ||||||||
| Agrarian Party | 5 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 33 | ||||||||
| People's Accord Party | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | ||||||||
| United Civic Party of Belarus | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||||
| All-Belarusian Unity and Accord Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Social Democratic Assembly | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Ecological Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Peasant Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Popular Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Party "The Greens" | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Socialist Party | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Republican Party of Labour and Justice | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Patriotic Movement | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Labour Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Civic Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||
| Partyja BPF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Christian Democratic Union | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Slavic Council | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Beer Lovers Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Belarusian National Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Liberal Democratic Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Women's Party "Nadzieja" | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| National Democratic Party of Belarus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Belarusian Scientific-Industrian Congress | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Common Sense Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Republican Party | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||||
| Independents | 9 | 44 | 10 | 32 | 95 | ||||||||
| Vacant | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 62 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||||
| Total valid votes | 4,821,199 | 18 | 3,471,635 | 101 | 2,550,608 | 20 | 1,856,738 | 59 | 260 | ||||
Aftermath
Following the elections, the MPs from the Belarusian Socialist Party, the Belarusian Labour Party and the Civic Party joined the United Civic Party of Belarus, together with one MP who defected from the Belarusian Party of Communists.[4]
