82,55% Of Electorate Voted. Lukashenko Defeated 11:60, 09/09/2001
Only at 9 p.m. the turnout for 8 p.m., the time of polling stations closure, was known. So, according to the CEC information, 6753 thousands voters attended the polling stations, or 82,55 percent of the citizens of Belarus.
In Brest region turn out amounts to 83.86 percent, Vitebsk region - 83.25 percent, in Gomel region- 85.4 percent, in Grodno region- 85.54 percent, and in the Minsk region-76.55 percent. So the turnout exceeds 80, 7 percent and Lukashenko is beaten by the democratic candidate. This is a conclusion of the Independent Institute of the Countries of Central and Eastern Europe, made in the result of public opinion study before the election. According to the evaluations of the independent researchers, at the turnout equal to 80 percent Lukashenko gets 37 % of the votes.
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