The 2002 Worcester City Council election took place on 2 May 2002 to elect members of Worcester City Council in Worcestershire, England. One third of the council was up for election and the council stayed under no overall control.^[1]

After the election, the composition of the council was:

• Conservative 18
• Labour 12
• Independent 5
• Liberal Democrat 1^[2]

Before the election no party had a majority, but the Conservatives provided the leader of the council after gaining 5 seats in the 2000 election.^[3] Both the Conservatives and Labour had 15 seats, along with 5 independents and 1 Liberal Democrat.^[4] The election saw 12 seats being contested with Labour defending 7, the Conservatives 3 and the Liberal Democrats and independents 1 each.^[3] Labour only contested 11 of the seats after their candidate in Claines ward was dropped by the party over a letter he wrote to the local paper.^[5]

The results saw Worcester remain a hung council but with the Conservatives becoming clearly the largest party.^[6] They gained 3 seats from Labour in All Saints, St Clement and St Martin wards.^[6]