2002 Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election

2002 Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election

← 1986 22 January 2002 2009 →
All 99 elected seats in the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad 50 seats needed for a majority
Turnout	53%[1]
First party Second party   AIMIM Leader Mir Zulfiqar Ali Teegala Krishna Reddy Party AIMIM TDP Alliance None NDA Seats won 34 22 Swing 4 2   Third party Fourth party   Leader Danam Nagender Bandaru Dattatreya Party INC BJP Alliance None NDA Seats won 19 18 Swing 5 6
Mayor before election Mir Zulfiqar Ali AIMIM Elected Mayor Teegala Krishna Reddy TDP

The 2002 Hyderabad Municipal Corporation election was conducted on 22 January 2002 to elect members to all 99 wards of the municipal corporation. These were the first elections to the corporation in 16 years. Direct elections were held for mayor along with wards. The Telugu Desam Party emerged as victor in the mayoral election with its candidate T. Krishna Reddy defeating runner-up Mir Zulfiqar Ali of AIMIM by 16,000 votes, whereas AIMIM became the single largest party in the corporation.^[2]