This national electoral calendar for the year 2002 lists the national/federal direct elections to be held in 2002 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states. By-elections are excluded, though national referendums are included.
January January 17 – The Gambia, parliamentary February February 24 – Laos, parliamentary March March 3 – São Tomé and Príncipe, legislative March 7 – Tonga, legislative March 9–11 Zimbabwe, presidential March 10 Republic of the Congo, presidential Colombia, parliamentary March 17 Comoros, presidential (first round) Portugal, legislative March 21 – Niue, legislative April April 7 – Hungary, presidential April 14 Comoros, presidential (second round) East Timor, presidential April 21 – Chad, parliamentary April 28 – Mali, presidential (first round) May May 2 Bahamas, legislative legislative May 5 In the second round of the French presidential election, Jacques Chirac is reelected. Burkina Faso, parliamentary May 12 – Mali, presidential (run-off) May 14 – Sierra Leone, parliamentary and presidential May 15 – Dutch general election, 2002: The CDA has become the largest party and the right-wing LPF became the third largest. This was the beginning of Balkenende I cabinet which collapsed 84 days later. May 16 – Dominican Republic, parliamentary May 17 – Ireland, legislative May 25 – Lesotho, legislative May 26 Colombia, presidential Republic of the Congo, parliamentary May 30 – Algeria, parliamentary June June 14–15 – Czech Republic, parliamentary June 24 – Albania, presidential June 30 Bolivia, presidential (run-off) Cameroon, parliamentary Guinea, parliamentary July July 14 – Mali, parliamentary July 15 – India, presidential July 25 – Tuvalu, parliamentary July 27 – The New Zealand Labour Party, is re-elected. September September 15 – North Macedonia, parliamentary September 27 – Morocco, legislative October October 5 Bosnia and Herzegovina, legislative and presidential October 6 – Brazil, presidential and legislative October 7 – Trinidad and Tobago, legislative election Latvia, parliamentary October 10 – Pakistan, general election October 16 Iraq, referendum Jamaica, legislative October 20 Ecuador, legislative and presidential Montenegro, parliamentary October 24 – Bahrain, legislative October 27 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil. Togo, parliamentary November November 5 – United States: House of Representatives and Senate elections
December December 6 – Seychelles, parliamentary December 8 – Serbia, presidential December 12 – Hans Enoksen is elected prime minister of Greenland. December 15 Equatorial Guinea, presidential Madagascar, parliamentary December 19 – South Korea, presidential December 22 Lithuania, presidential (first round) Montenegro, presidential December 27 – Kenya, presidential, and legislative
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