Parliamentary elections were held in Vietnam on 19 May 2002.Vietnam: Elections held in 2002
Inter-Parliamentary Union A total of 759 candidates, including 125 independents, contested the election. The Vietnamese Fatherland Front was the only organisation to nominate candidates, with 634 coming from the

Communist Party of Vietnam The Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV), also known as the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP), is the founding and sole legal party of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Founded in 1930 by Hồ Chí Minh, the CPV became the ruling party of North ...

and 125 being non-party members. The Communist Party won 447 of the 498 seats. Voter turnout was reported to be over 99%.

Results

Aftermath

The first session of the new National Assembly met from July 19 to August 12, 2002.

Nguyễn Văn An Nguyễn Văn An (born 1 October 1937) is a Vietnamese politician who served as Chairman of the National Assembly of Vietnam The National Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam ( vi, Quốc hội nước Cộng hoà xã hội chủ ng ...

, who had held the position of

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since 2001, after

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was dismissed from the same role after being elected to the higher post of General Secretary of the

, was re-elected. Trần Đức Lương was re-elected as President, and

Phan Văn Khải Phan Văn Khải (; 25 December 1933 – 17 March 2018) was a Vietnamese politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Vietnam from 25 September 1997 to 27 June 2006. Life and career Phan Văn Khải was born on 25 December 1933 in Tan T ...

was re-elected as Prime Minister.

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