2002 Greek local elections

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The 2002 Greek local elections elected representatives to Greece's super-prefectures, 54 prefectures, provinces, and approximately 1,033 communities and municipalities.

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The local elections in Greece traditionally occur during the month of October.

Candidates at local elections do not run under the official name of the party they belong, but form electoral platforms with different names for the purpose.

Elections

Municipal mayoralties

Candidates supported by New Democracy won in all the three major municipalities, Athens, Thessaloniki and Piraeus.

Municipality of Athens

Dora Bakoyannis, a prominent member of New Democracy, won the election and replaced Dimitris Avramopoulos as mayor of Athens (first term).

CandidateSupporting partiesPlatform1st Round %Seats2nd Round %Seats
Dora Bakoyannis New Democracy Athens tomorrow160,42547.510180,89860.525
Christos Papoutsis Panhellenic Socialist Movement Beautiful City87,920266118,27839.511
Spyros Halvatzis Communist Party of Greece Solidarity for Athens20,30561
Fotis Kouvelis Synaspismos A different Athens19,9965.91
Ioannis Dimaras Democratic Social Movement Athens - Our city37,60211.13
Dimosthenis Vergis Greek Ecologists Ecologists of Athens - Dimosthenis Vergis3,0500.90-
Makis Voridis Hellenic Front Front for Athens - Athens, Hellenic city3,0230.90-
Aggelos Hagios Radical Left Front Undisciplined Athens2,1660.64-
Odysseas TiligadasIndependentFirst The Greeks1,0590.30-
Thanasses Tsirigotis M-L KKE People's Road6160.20-

Municipality of Piraeus

Christos Agrapidis was reelected mayor of Piraeus (second term) with the support of New Democracy. [1]

CandidateSupporting partiesPlatform1st Round %Seats2nd Round %Seats
Christos Agrapidis New Democracy Time for Piraeus53.41747.001058.55456.1024
Manolis Beteniotis Panhellenic Socialist Movement Piraeus firstly35.34531.10745.87143.9012
Thodoris Dritsas Synaspismos
Renewing Communist Ecological Left
The Port of Agony8.5227.502
Konstantinos Tzatzanis Communist Party of Greece Piraeus' Renaissance7.4556.61
Legakis Nikolaos Independent5.0004.4
Alfieri Styliani IndependentCoalition of Piraeus' citizens2.5232.2
Charitos Christos Hellenic Front Front for Piraeus1.3681.2

Municipality of Thessaloniki

Vasilis Papageorgopoulos was reelected mayor of Thessaloniki with the support of New Democracy.

CandidateSupporting partiesPlatform1st Round %Seats
Vasilis Papageorgopoulos New Democracy Resurgence95.70154.2024
Spyros Vougias Panhellenic Socialist Movement Thessaloniki - Human city49.20627.9010
Agapios Sahinis Communist Party of Greece Thessaloniki now16.8079.503
Tassos Kourakis Synaspismos Thessaloniki of the citizens and of ecology11.0826.302
Ioannis Kouriannidis Hellenic Front Front for Thessaloniki2.1421.2-
Anastasia Theodoropoulou Radical Left Front Left movement1.6550.90-

Super-Prefectural elections

Athens-Piraeus

Fofi Gennimata won the mainly ceremonial position of the super-prefect of Athens-Piraeus (first term) supported by PASOK. The coalition supported by New Democracy suffered a setback because of the unpopularity of Ioannis Tzanetakos and because of the candidacy of Georgios Karatzaferis.

CandidateSupporting partiesPlatform1st Round %Seats2nd Round %Seats
Fofi Gennimata Panhellenic Socialist Movement Super-prefecture of citizens659.37740.1016818.08356.3046 [2]
Ioannis Tzanetakos New Democracy Free self-government now439.66226.7010635.81443.7016 [2]
Georgios Karatzaferis Popular Orthodox Rally With a Pure Heart223.53113.604
Manolis Glezos Coalition of the Radical Left Greek Prefecture - Active Citizens177.41110.804
Thanasis Pafilis Communist Party of Greece Prefectural Fighting Cooperation143.8568.804

Sub-prefectures of the Athens-Piraeus super-prefecture

Athens Prefecture

Elected prefect:Yiannis Sgouros (supported by PASOK)

Piraeus Prefecture

Elected Prefect:Yiannis Mihas (supported by PASOK)

Drama-Kavala-Xanthi

CandidateSupporting partiesPlatform1st Round %Seats
Constantine Tatsis New Democracy Resurgence131.69751.6045 [3]
Ioannis Stympiris Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Synaspismos
Course of Development112.2404427 [3]
Constantine Mollas Communist Party of Greece Inter-prefectural Fighting Rally11.3344.403 [3]

Evros-Rhodope

CandidateSupporting partiesPlatform1st Round %Seats
Christos Chatzopoulos Panhellenic Socialist Movement
Synaspismos
Unity-Creation-Perspective92.04750.7030 [4]
Dimitrios Mouzas New Democracy New Society75.90641.8018 [4]
Christos Trellis Communist Party of Greece Democratic Fighting Cooperation13.5367.503 [4]

Prefectural elections

Thessaloniki Prefecture

CandidateSupporting partiesPlatform1st Round %Seats
Panagiotis Psomiadis New Democracy Power for the Prefecture277.65250.1023 [5]
Grigorios Chatzisavvas Panhellenic Socialist Movement Prefecture of Thessaloniki as a Protagonist190.09934.3010 [5]
Georgios Rokos Democratic Social Movement / Communist Party of Greece Prefectural Fighting Cooperation44.3238.03 [5]
Michalis Tremopoulos Synaspismos Ecology - Solidarity - Coalition of Citizens23.4714.201 [5]
Marianna Brekasi Communist Organization of Greece Left Prefectural Movement of Thessaloniki10.1971.80-
Savvas Georgiadis IndependentFighters against Unemployment8.4311.50-

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