page_title: 2001 Belarusian presidential election
hierarchical_section_title: 2001 Belarusian presidential election
context_page_description: Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 9 September 2001. 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 handily reelected with 77.4% of the vote over two minor candidates. Voter turnout was 83.9%. A Senior official for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe noted that the pre-election environment was "not democratic" and wouldn't describe it as "free and fair".
context_section_description: Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 9 September 2001. 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 handily reelected with 77.4% of the vote over two minor candidates. Voter turnout was 83.9%. A Senior official for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe noted that the pre-election environment was "not democratic" and wouldn't describe it as "free and fair".
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