collectives, public associations and civil society organizations) |align="right" |103 |- |align=left style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|Total |width="30" align="right" style="background-color:#E9E9E9"|110 |- |align=left colspan=4|Source: rec.gov.by |} The 2008 Belarusian parliamentary election was held in Belarus on 28 September 2008. The 110 seats in the House of Representatives were at stake. According to the OSCE, the elections were undemocratic and the work of international observers was seriously hindered as the observers were refused access to the facilities where the votes were counted. But according to a CIS election observation mission, the elections in Belarus conformed to international standards. According to the official results the oppositional parties failed to gain any of the 110 available seats, all of which were given to parties and non-partisan candidates loyal to president Alexander Lukashenko. The Central Election Commission who declared this, its cause of the overwhelming popular fear of mass demonstrations and of the "radical political changes" demanded by the opposition. This declaration was met with immediate anti-governmental demonstrations in the centre of Minsk protesting against electoral fraud. President Lukashenko commented that the opposition in Belarus is financed by foreign countries and is not needed. 2010 Presidential Election A presidential election was held in Belarus on 19 December 2010. The election was originally planned for the beginning of 2011. However, the final date was set during an extraordinary session of the Belarusian National Assembly on 14 September 2010. Of the ten candidates, incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner by the Central Electoral Commission with 79.67% of the votes, though opposition supporters decried the election. The Central Electoral Commission issued results for the election: The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) called the election "flawed", saying it fell well short of democratic standards. The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) recognised the election as legitimate. More recent elections 2012 Belarusian parliamentary election 2015 Belarusian presidential election 2016 Belarusian parliamentary election 2019 Belarusian parliamentary election 2020 Belarusian presidential election Next Belarusian presidential election References External links Central Election Commission of the Republic of Belarus Parties and Elections in Europe Belarusian Parliamentary Elections in the Internet, 2004 Information gathered ahead of the 2006 presidential election in Belarus Presidential Elections in Belarus 2006, Belapan Daily News ePolitics 2006: Online Campaigning in 2006 Presidential Election in Belarus review of the presidential elections in Belarus, Political Sphere, № 7 2006 "Rethinking Elections", summaries in English, articles in Belarusian Parliamentary Election in Belarus 2008 on