Slovenian presidential election, 2002

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Presidential elections were held in Slovenia in 2002. The first round was held on 10 November, with a run-off held on 1 December after no candidate passed the 50% threshold in the first round. The result was a victory for Janez Drnovšek, who won 56/6% of the vote in the second round. Voter turnout was 72.04% in the first round and 65.24% in the second.

Results

Candidate	Party	First round		Second round
		Votes	%	Votes	%
Janez Drnovšek	Liberal Democracy of Slovenia	508,114	44.39	586,263	56.58
Barbara Brezigar	Independent	352,520	30.80	449,995	43.42
Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti	Slovenian National Party	97,178	8.49
France Arhar	Independent	86,836	7.59
France Bučar	Independent	37,069	3.24
Lev Kreft	United List of Social Democrats	25,715	2.25
Anton Bebler	Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia	21,165	1.85
Gorazd Drevenšek		9,791	0.86
Jure Jurček Cekuta	Independent	6,184	0.54
Invalid/blank votes		15,209	-	14,275	-
Total		1,159,781	100	1,050,533	100
Source: European Elections Database