2002 Polish local elections

2002 Polish regional assembly election
27 October 2002 (first round)
10 November 2002 (second round)
561 seats to regional assemblies
Registered29,572,213
Turnout13,078,372 (44.23%)
1.12pp
  First party Second party Third party
 
Leader Leszek Miller Andrzej Lepper Roman Giertych
Party SLD-UP SRP LPR
Leader since 1 July 1999 10 January 1992 26 January 2002
Last election 31.8%, 329 seats 12.0%, 89 seats Did not exist
Seats won 189 101 92
Seat change 140 12 Did not exist
Popular vote 2,752,318 1,784,610 1,603,081
Percentage 24.7% 16.0% 14.4%
Swing 7.1pp 4.0pp Did not exist
  Fourth party Fifth party Sixth party
 
Leader Maciej Płażyński
Lech Kaczyński 		Jarosław Kalinowski Henryk Kroll
Party POPiS PSL MN
Leader since 2002 11 October 1997 23 March 1991
Last election Did not exist 12.0%, 89 seats 0.6%, 7 seats
Seats won 79 58 7
Seat change Did not exist 31 0
Popular vote 1,351,856 1,207,161 54,385
Percentage 12.1% 10.8% 0.5%
Swing Did not exist 1.2pp 0.1pp
Result of the voivodeship sejmik elections

The 2002 Polish local elections were held in two parts, with the first round on 27 October and the second on 10 November 2002. All 16 provincial voivodeship sejmiks, 314 powiat county councils, 2,748 Gmina municipal councils, and town and city mayors were up for election. The event was the first of its kind to allow direct elections for mayors of municipalities. The local polls followed one year after the decisive victory of the Democratic Left Alliance in the 2001 parliamentary elections and were seen as a test of the popularity of the Democratic Left Alliance and Polish People's Party coalition government under Prime Minister Leszek Miller.


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