2002 Polish local 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.^[3] 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.

2002 Polish regional assembly election

← 1998 27 October 2002 (first round) 10 November 2002 (second round) 2006 →
561 seats to regional assemblies
Registered	29,572,213
Turnout	13,078,372 (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[a] Last election 31.8%, 329 seats 12.0%, 89 seats[b] 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[b] 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

Voivodship councils

	Electoral committee	% of seats	Seats
	Democratic Left Alliance-Labour Union (SLD-UP)	33.70%	189
	Self-Defense of the Republic of Poland (SRP)	18.00%	101
	Civic Platform-Law and Justice (POPiS)	14.08%	79
	League of Polish Families (LPR)	16.40%	92
	Polish People's Party (PSL)	10.34%	58
	Solidarity Electoral Action (AWS) and affiliated groups	3.03%	17
	Law and Justice (PiS)[c]	1.78%	10
	German Minority (MN)	1.25%	7
	Civic Platform (PO)[c]	0.89%	5
	Self-Governance Union (UW)	0.53%	3
	Total	100.00%	561

Party		Votes	%	Seats
	Democratic Left Alliance – Labor Union	2,752,318	24.65	189
	Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland	1,784,610	15.98	101
	League of Polish Families	1,603,081	14.36	92
	Civic Platform – Law and Justice Coalition Committee	1,351,856	12.11	79
	Polish People's Party	1,207,161	10.81	58
	Law and Justice	261,983	2.35	10
	Confederation Movement for Defending the Unemployed [pl]	261,633	2.34	0
	Self-Governance Union	256,012	2.29	3
	Real Politics Union	254,013	2.27	0
	Alternative Labour Party	167,349	1.50	0
	Małopolska Community [pl]	135,424	1.21	6
	Civic Platform	127,828	1.14	5
	National Party of Retirees and Pensioners	127,299	1.14	0
	Together Poland	121,841	1.09	0
	Podkarpacie Together [pl]	106,504	0.95	7
	Self-Governing Community of the Silesian Voivodeship [pl]	99,741	0.89	4
	Anticlerical Poland	94,614	0.85	0
	Silesian Autonomy Movement	56,632	0.51	0
	German Minority	54,385	0.49	7
	2002 Community	50,405	0.45	0
	Social Initiative Self-Governance Community	38,297	0.34	0
	Lesser Polish Forum of Women	34,100	0.31	0
	Confederation of Independent Poland	29,406	0.26	0
	Germans of Upper Silesia	20,412	0.18	0
	Truth and Common Good	19,802	0.18	0
	Our Podlasie	17,157	0.15	0
	Belarusian Electoral Committee	15,544	0.14	0
	Polish Economic Union [pl]	12,406	0.11	0
	OPTIMAL	8,498	0.08	0
	Defence of Podlasie	6,985	0.06	0
	Defence of Polish Land	6,728	0.06	0
	Peasants Together	6,565	0.06	0
	Greens of the Republic of Poland	4,788	0.04	0
	Association for the Help of Children in Gmina Gogolin	4,456	0.04	0
	Driving Instructor's Association	4,073	0.04	0
	Front for Włocławek	3,985	0.04	0
	Common Initiative - Poland Podlasie	3,867	0.03	0
	National Alliance of Retirees and Pensioners [pl]	3,415	0.03	0
	Self-Governance Agreement of Powiats	3,135	0.03	0
	Family	2,986	0.03	0
	Entrepreneurship of the 21st Century	2,986	0.03	0
	Alicja Wojciechowska Committee	2,971	0.03	0
	Committee of Growth for Sierpc and the Powiat	2,675	0.02	0
	Z. Krzeszowski Committee	2,659	0.02	0
	KW Stowarzyszenia Śląska Liga Walki z Rakiem	2,633	0.02	0
	Organisation of the Polish Nation	2,559	0.02	0
	Rzeczpospolita Babska	2,496	0.02	0
	Active Women	2,495	0.02	0
	Tczew Powiat - Alternative 2002	2,433	0.02	0
	Grażyna Kutzner Committee - Supporters of Law and Order	2,389	0.02	0
	Committee in Service of Wielkopolans	2,298	0.02	0
	Railwaymens' Association	2,061	0.02	0
	Wałowski Committee	1,792	0.02	0
	Kuyavian Citizen's Association "Our Region"	1,753	0.02	0
	Małopolska Right-wing	1,461	0.01	0
	Independents in the 2002 elections	1,412	0.01	0
	KW Fundacja Promocji Twórców Kultury i Sztuki im. A. Zauchy	1,393	0.01	0
	Right for the Republic	1,161	0.01	0
	Forum of Retirees and Pensioners [pl]	1,055	0.01	0
	Opportunity for Poor Poles Truth and Labor	982	0.01	0
	Citizen's Union	921	0.01	0
	Self-Governing League of Ziemia Jastrzębska	841	0.01	0
	Truth - List of Irena Puciłowska	781	0.01	0
Total		11,165,501	100.00	561
Valid votes		11,165,501	85.37
Invalid/blank votes		1,912,871	14.63
Total votes		13,078,372	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		29,572,213	44.23
Source: National Electoral Commission[4]