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2025 Belarusian presidential election

2025 Belarusian presidential election

← 2020 26 January 2025 2030 →
Turnout85.70%
 
Nominee Alexander Lukashenko Sergei Syrankov
Party Independent CPB
Alliance Belaya Rus
Percentage 87.48% 3.23%

President before election

Alexander Lukashenko
Independent

Elected President

Alexander Lukashenko
Independent

Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 26 January 2025. The president is directly elected to serve a five-year term.

Incumbent president Alexander Lukashenko has won every presidential election since 1994, with all but the first being deemed by international monitors as neither free nor fair.[1] Prior to the elections, independent media was closed down or forced to operate from abroad.[2] Aside from Lukashenko, there were four candidates on the ballot. Three of them represented pro-government parties. The fourth candidate, Hanna Kanapatskaya, was the only formally independent candidate, but opposition figures accused her of being a stooge, which her supporters have denied.[2]

Following exit poll results indicating Lukashenko's decisive victory, the election was described as a sham by critics.[3][4][5] Lukashenko faced no serious challenge on the ballot from the other candidates and received over 87% of the vote.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference :1 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b Allnutt, Luke (24 January 2025). "Could Belarus's Presidential Election Be Lukashenka's Last?". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  3. ^ Svirnovskiy, Gregory (26 January 2025). "Lukashenko wins 'sham' election in Belarus with 87.6 percent of vote". POLITICO. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  4. ^ Higgins, Andrew (26 January 2025). "Belarus's Strong-Arm Leader, Aleksandr Lukashenko, Cruises to Re-election". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  5. ^ "Belarus strongman set to win a 7th term in an election the opposition calls a farce". AP News. 26 January 2025. Retrieved 26 January 2025.
  6. ^ Trevelyan, Mark (27 January 2025). "Putin ally Lukashenko declared winner of Belarus vote that West calls a charade". Reuters.

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