Presidential election in Belarus in 2025

Presidential election in Belarus was held in January 2025. According to the Constitution, the head of state is elected for five years, and the election must take place on a Sunday no later than two months before the expiration of the term of office of the incumbent President, whose term of office is counted from the moment of inauguration.

The current presidential election campaign was the seventh in the history of independent Belarus. The previous elections were held on:

23 June 1994 (run-off on 10 July)
9 September 2001
19 March 2006
19 December 2010
11 October 2015
9 August 2020

Date of the presidential election in 2025

The presidential election was scheduled for 26 January 2025. MPs approved this date at the meeting of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on 23 October 2024.

Early voting for the presidential election 2025 will be running from 21 to 25 January.

CEC Chairman Igor Karpenko noted that 26 January 2025 was the most optimal time for the election campaign and gave several arguments.

If necessary, a run-off was to take place no later than 9 February 2025.

2025 election campaign: main stages

The Central Election Commission of Belarus approved the calendar plan of events of the presidential election. Traditionallythemainstagesare:

establishment of election commissions and polling stations;
nomination and registration of presidential candidates;
provision of information to voters and conduct of the election campaign;
voting, vote count and tabulation of results.

All the key dates and deadlines for each stage of the 2025 election campaign were set in accordance with the Constitution and the Electoral Code.

A total of 153 territorial commissions and more than 5,000 precinct commissions were set up for the 2025 presidential election. Belarusian legislation does not provide for the establishment of polling stations abroad.

For the news feed of the past election campaign, the official sociological research and the opinions of experts, please visit the 2025 Presidential Election in Belarus section.

Presidential election candidates

A person, who is a natural-born citizen of the Republic of Belarus, who is 40 years old, who is eligible to vote, and who has resided in Belarus for at least 20 years prior to the election, and who has not previously held a foreign citizenship or residence permit or other document of a foreign state entitling him to privileges and other advantages can run for presidency.

To learn more about the nomination of candidates for the post of the President of Belarus, please click here.

Following the most important stages in the election race – the collection of voter signatures and their verification, and the submitting of necessary documents by the potential candidates – the Central Election Commission registered the 2025 presidential candidates:

Aleksandr Lukashenko
Oleg Gaidukevich
Anna Kanopatskaya
Sergei Syrankov
Aleksandr Khizhnyak

Observation of the 2025 presidential election in Belarus

Citizens of Belarus and invited representatives of other states and international organizations are entitled to monitor the election, provided they have accreditation in line with the specified working procedure for observers.

Belarus’ CEC accredits 456 international observers from 49 countries

CIS IPA sends 60 observers for presidential election in Belarus

Results of the president election 2025

After the end of the main election day the Central Election Commission of Belarus announced the preliminary results of the president election on 27 January 2025. Following the ballot count, the incumbent President Aleksandr Lukashenko won the election with 86.82% of the votes.

Preliminary information about the number of votes for every candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus:

Oleg Gaidukevich – 2.02%;
Anna Kanopatskaya – 1.86%;
Aleksandr Lukashenko – 86.82%;
Sergei Syrankov – 3.21%;
Aleksandr Khizhnyak – 1.74%;
None of the above – 3.60%.

Later, at a press conference at the CEC Information Center on 27 January 2025, head of the Central Election Commission Igor Karpenko announced that Aleksandr Lukashenko won the president election in Belarus with 5,136,293 votes.

The following number of votes was cast for every candidate for the presidency of the Republic of Belarus: