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 17 – The Gambia, parliamentary

• February 24 – Laos, parliamentary

• 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 7 – Hungary, presidential
• April 14
  • Comoros, presidential (second round)
  • East Timor, presidential
• April 21 – Chad, parliamentary
• April 28 – Mali, presidential (first round)

• 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 14–15 – Czech Republic, parliamentary
• June 24 – Albania, presidential
• June 30
  • Bolivia, presidential (run-off)
  • Cameroon, parliamentary
  • Guinea, parliamentary

• July 14 – Mali, parliamentary
• July 15 – India, presidential
• July 25 – Tuvalu, parliamentary
• July 27 – The New Zealand Labour Party, is re-elected.

September 15 – North Macedonia, parliamentary September 27 – Morocco, legislative

• 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 5 – United States: House of Representatives and Senate elections

• 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