In 2002, the Lions won back-to-back Premierships when they defeated Collingwood 9. 12. 66 to 10. 1

Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, Phil Hogan and Gay Mitchell in the leadership election, which was triggered by the resignation of Michael Noonan following the 2002 general election.

The PLH candidate Rafael Pineda was defeated by the PNH candidate Ricardo Maduro, who took office in January 2002.

Jacques Chirac was reelected in 2002, mainly because his socialist rival Lionel Jospin was defeated by the extreme right wing candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen.

The two teams met twice a year ( interrupted in 1982 by a player strike ) 1970 – 2001 ; with the move of the Colts to the AFC South the two teams ' rivalry actually escalated, as they met three times in the playoffs in the South's first nine seasons of existence ; the Jets crushed the Colts 41 – 0 in the 2002 Wild Card playoff round ; the Colts then defeated the Jets 30 – 17 in the 2009 AFC Championship Game ; but the next year in the Wild Card round the Jets pulled off another playoff upset of the Colts, winning 17 – 16 ; it was Peyton Manning's final playoff game with the Colts.

In September 2002, in the Russia versus the Rest of the World Match, Polgár finally defeated Garry Kasparov in a game.

Carolina defeated New Orleans on the road every year from 2002 to 2008, a streak of seven seasons.

A bittersweet moment during the season occurred on December 29, 2002, when Darrell Green concluded his 20th and final season as the Redskins defeated the Cowboys 20 – 14 at FedExField.

The Socialist Party ( PS ), joined by other parties on the left, soundly defeated Chirac's conservative allies, forcing Chirac into a new period of cohabitation with Jospin as prime minister ( 1997 – 2002 ), which lasted five years.

The split forced Day to call a new leadership convention, and, in April 2002, Stephen Harper defeated Day at the subsequent Canadian Alliance leadership election.

While the Green's vote share was down from 2002, it won a fourth seat in Nantes where François de Rugy defeated a conservative UMP incumbent.

The winner, Vecepia Towery, was revealed on May 19, 2002, where she defeated Neleh Dennis by a vote of 4-3.

His final game was Game 4 of the 2002 NBA Finals where the Lakers defeated the New Jersey Nets to win their third consecutive NBA championship.

In 2005, Hydra, a dedicated chess computer with custom hardware and sixty-four processors and also winner of the 14th IPCCC in 2005, defeated seventh-ranked Michael Adams 5½ – ½ in a six-game match ( though Adams ' preparation was far less thorough than Kramnik's for the 2002 series ).

In 2002, however, Republican Elizabeth Dole defeated Bowles with 55 % of the vote here, and won by a large margin statewide.

Lula defeated Serra in the Brazilian general election, 2002 | 2002 presidential elections.

The Giants defeated the Atlanta Braves in the first round of the play-offs then met the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2002 National League Championship Series.

In the 2002 World Series against the Anaheim Angels, Santiago delivered 5 runs batted in as the Giants were defeated in a seven-game series.

* 2002 US Open: Lindsay Davenport defeated Yelena Bovina to advance to the semi-finals against the winner of Serena Williams vs. Daniela Hantuchová ; Monica Seles defeated Martina Hingis to advance to the quarter-finals against Venus Williams.

The incorporation issue was defeated in November 2002, 73 % to 27 %, including most of the people in the five communities.

The Crusader football team had a 41-game losing streak in effect from 2002 until September 30, 2006, when they defeated the Manchester Regional High School Falcons, 33-14, snapping the four-year-long losing streak.

* The town is referenced incorrectly in the 2002 movie City by the Sea, when Long Beach is said to have defeated Cedarhurst in a football game ( instead of the actual high school, Lawrence ).

* Eileen Stevens ( Donna Pescow )-A successful, no-nonsense, Jewish American State Senator who launched a campaign for the U. S. House of Representatives in 2002 and was narrowly defeated.

* 2002 – Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1.

Further public criticism and disputes between Democrat senators resulted in Stott Despoja's resignation as leader on 21 August 2002, following presentation by four of her six colleagues ( those who had earlier enabled the passage of the GST ) with a ten-point ' reform ' agenda proposed by John Cherry.

In March 2002 Aimo Kairamo, the long-time chief editor of the party organ of the Social Democrat Party, resigned from Attac and recommended the same decision for other social democrats because of the left-wing minority communists ' leading positions.

Mazowiecki had left the UW in November 2002 after it had left the conservative and Christian democratic European People's Party in favour of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, and entered coalitions with the social-democratic Democratic Left Alliance and the populist Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland party on the local level.

Previously, a Liberal Democrat / Conservative coalition had run Southwark Council since 2002.

He was elected in 2002 as the running mate of Democrat Jennifer Granholm.

* Clinton LeSueur ( born 1969 ), Republican politician who lost races in 2002 and 2004 for Mississippi's 2nd congressional district to incumbent Democrat Bennie Thompson

* January 4: Democrat Ed Case is elected in a Hawaii special Congressional election, replacing Patsy Mink, who had been elected to Congress posthumously in November 2002.

On 29 June 2011: " During Prime Minister ’ s questions ", " Liberal Democrat MP Julian Huppert asked :" " Does the Prime Minister believe that drugs policy has been failing for decades, as he said in 2005, and does he agree that the Government should initiate a discussion of alternative ways including the possibility of legalisation regulation to tackle the global drugs dilemma as he voted for in 2002.

One of his sons, Bill Simon, was the Republican nominee for governor of California in 2002, having been defeated by the Democrat Gray Davis, who was subsequently recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The IDU has several regional affiliates: the Democrat Union of Africa, the Union of Latin American Parties, the Asia Pacific Democrat Union, the Caribbean Democrat Union, and both the European People's Party and the ( dormant since 2002 ) European Democrat Union in Europe.

He succeeded Democrat Tony Knowles and took office on December 2, 2002.

In 2002, as Bordallo reached her term limit and as Delegate Robert Underwood vacated his seat and attempted to run for governor, she campaigned for and was elected as a Democrat to the House, serving from January 2003 to the present, and is the first woman to represent Guam in Congress.

McCallum was defeated in the 2002 election by Democrat Jim Doyle.

On April 6, 2002, Hennigan, a Democrat, ran in a special election for Place 8 on the Caddo Parish Commission, his parish's governing body.

He was chairman of the International Young Democrat Union from 1998 to 2002.

The term could also be applied to former U. S. Representative Connie Morella of Maryland, who lost re-election in 2002 to Democrat Chris Van Hollen.

Martens also negotiated with Finnish conservative politician Sauli Niinistö the merger of the European Democrat Union ( EDU ) into the EPP ( formally concluded in 2002 ).

In 2002, redistricting merged Dingell's 16th District with the Washtenaw County and western Wayne County-based 13th District, represented by fellow Democrat Lynn Rivers, whom Dingell also bested in the Democratic primary.

In 2002 and 2004, Herger defeated Democrat Mike Johnson, garnering 67 % of the vote in 2004.

Along with Representative Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, Shays co-sponsored the Shays-Meehan bill, which was signed into law as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.

Keller readily won the 2002 Congressional election against Democrat Eddie Diaz, winning with 65 % of the vote.