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.^[1] 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 to the popularity of the Democratic Left Alliance and Polish People's Party coalition government under Prime Minister Leszek Miller.

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2002 Polish regional assembly election

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561 seats to regional assemblies
Turnout	44.23%
First party Second party Third party   Leader Leszek Miller Andrzej Lepper Marek Kotlinowski Party SLD SRP LPR Leader since 1 July 1999 10 January 1992 5 May 2001 Seats won 189 101 92 Percentage 24.65% 15.98% 14.36%   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 Seats won 79 58 7 Percentage 12.11% 10.81 18.61% (in Opole)
Result of the voivodeship sejmik elections

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• Civic Platform and Law and Justice stood together in the POPiS alliance in 14 voivodeships; they were elected separately in Masovia and stood on another list in Podkarpacie.