# Communist Party of Belarus

The Communist Party of Belarus (CPB or KPB; Russian: Коммунисти́ческая па́ртия Белару́си, romanized: Kommunisticheskaya Partiya Belarusi; Belarusian: Камуністы́чная па́ртыя Белару́сі, romanized: Kamunistyčnaja Partyja Bielarusi) is a communist and Marxist–Leninist political party in Belarus. The party was created in 1996 and supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the party is Sergei Syrankov. The party has had more seats in the National Assembly of Belarus than any other party since the 2000 Belarusian parliamentary election, the first national election it participated in. However, most seats in the Belarusian legislature are held by independent politicians.

## Overview

In 2006, the party suggested merging with the Belarusian Party of Communists (PKB), later known as the Belarusian Left Party "A Just World". While the Communist Party of Belarus is a pro-presidential party, the PKB was one of the major opposition parties in Belarus. According to Sergey Kalyakin, the chairman of the PKB, the so-called "re-unification" of the two parties was a plot designed to oust the opposition PKB.
The main foreign policy goal of strengthening the party proclaimed national security through the development of Belarus-Russia Union State and the phase reconstruction voluntarily renewed Union nations, strengthening its political and economic independence.
The CPB is part of the Union of Communist Parties – Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP–CPSU) and the International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties (IMCWP); it enjoys relations with other communist parties in post-Soviet states and throughout the world to a much greater extent than the PKB, which is affiliated with the Party of the European Left and is considered by many in the region to be "pro-Western."
At the 2004 parliamentary election, the CPB obtained 5.99% and 8 out of 110 seats in the House of Representatives, 6 seats in 2008 and even less in 2012 - where it won 3 seats.
Because of the party's support for President Lukashenko, 17 of its members were appointed by him in the country's upper house, the Council of the Republic of Belarus, in 2012.
In 2014, the party increased its representation by obtaining 5 seats.
The party improved its result in the 2016 parliamentary elections, where it won 8 seats and then further increased it in the 2019 elections - where it won 11 seats.
During the 2020–21 Belarusian protests, the Communist Party of Belarus participated in a meeting in support of Alexander Lukashenko.

## Election results
### Presidential elections

| Election | Candidate | First round | First round | Second round | Second round | Result |
| Election | Candidate | Votes | % | Votes | % | Result |
| 2001 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 4,666,680 | 75.65% | | | Elected Y |
| 2006 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 5,501,249 | 82.97% | | | Elected Y |
| 2010 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 5,130,557 | 79.65% | | | Elected Y |
| 2015 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 5,102,478 | 83.47% | | | Elected Y |
| 2020 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 4,661,075 | 80.10% | | | Elected Y |
| 2025 | Sergei Syrankov | 189,740 | 3.23% | | | Lost N |

### Legislative elections

| Election | Party leader | Performance | Performance | Performance | Performance | Performance | Rank | Government |
| Election | Party leader | Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/– | Rank | Government |
| 2000 | Viktor Chikin | No data | No data | No data | 6 / 110 | New | 1st | Support |
| 2004 | Tatsyana Holubeva [be] | 334,383 | 5.31% | New | 8 / 110 | 2 | 1st | Support |
| 2008 | Tatsyana Holubeva [be] | 229,986 | 4.27% | 1.04 | 6 / 110 | 2 | 1st | Support |
| 2012 | Tatsyana Holubeva [be] | 141,095 | 2.69% | 1.58 | 3 / 110 | 3 | 1st | Support |
| 2016 | Igor Karpenko | 380,770 | 7.40% | 4.71 | 8 / 110 | 5 | 1st | Coalition |
| 2019 | Aliaksiej Sokal | 559,537 | 10.62% | 3.22 | 11 / 110 | 3 | 1st | Coalition |
| 2024 | Aliaksiej Sokal | | | | 7 / 110 | 4 | 3rd | Support |

### Party leaders

| No. | Secretary-General | Took office | Left office |
| 1 | Viktor Chikin | 2 November 1996 | November 2001 |
| 2 | Valery Zacharanka [ru] | November 2001 | 29 July 2004 |
| 3 | Tatsyana Holubeva [be] | 4 March 2005 | 20 October 2012 |
| 4 | Igor Karpenko | 20 October 2012 | 14 May 2017 |
| 5 | Aliaksiej Sokal | 14 May 2017 | 25 May 2024 |
| 6 | Sergei Syrankov | 25 May 2024 | Incumbent |