Belarus 2020 Presidential Election
August 9, 2020
The official result of 80.1% for Alyaksandr Lukashenko was found by an OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur, the EU and others to be neither free nor fair, amid documented falsification and a mass post-election crackdown. This is a case of confirmed falsification.
Official results
The Integrity Ledger
What the evidence establishes, and what it does not — side by side, each finding sourced and tiered.
What is established
- Result falsificationConfirmed
The OSCE Moscow Mechanism rapporteur found the allegations that the election was not transparent, free or fair confirmed, referred to “the falsified presidential elections,” and recommended cancelling the results.
Sources:1 - Process violationsConfirmed
Leading opposition contenders were barred or jailed before the vote, and ODIHR could not observe the election because Belarus failed to issue a timely invitation.
- Process violationsConfirmed
A mass post-election crackdown followed; the UN found at least 37,000 people detained and documented torture and ill-treatment it assessed as widespread and systematic.
Sources:1 - Result falsificationConfirmed
The European Parliament rejected the official results as conducted in flagrant violation of internationally recognised standards and refused to recognise Lukashenko as president after his term expired.
Sources:1 - Statistical anomaliesCorroborated
Independent parallel-count initiatives comparing photographed ballots against official data concluded the announced result had been falsified, sampling a portion of polling stations.
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What is not established
- Result falsificationAlleged
The “true” outcome is not independently verified — authorities never published station-level protocols, and the parallel counts covered only part of the stations.
Sources:1 - Foreign interferenceAlleged
No authoritative investigation established that a foreign state altered vote tallies; the documented falsification was attributed to Belarusian state bodies, with Russia’s established role being post-election political and security backing.
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