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2002 Fine Gael leadership election

Irish political party leadership contest

Field	Value
election_name	2002 Fine Gael leadership election
country
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	2001 Fine Gael leadership election
previous_year	2001
next_election	2017 Fine Gael leadership election
next_year	2017
election_date
image1
candidate1	Enda Kenny
leaders_seat1	Mayo
percentage1	Majority
image2
candidate2	Richard Bruton
leaders_seat2	Dublin North-Central
image4
candidate4	Gay Mitchell
leaders_seat4	Dublin South-Central
colour4	0
image5
candidate5	Phil Hogan
leaders_seat5	Carlow-Kilkenny
1data4	0
title	Leader
before_election	Michael Noonan
after_election	Enda Kenny

The 2002 Fine Gael leadership election began in May 2002, when Michael Noonan resigned as party leader due to the party's poor performance in the 2002 general election. Noonan had only been party leader for little over fifteen months. His successor was elected by the members of the Fine Gael parliamentary party on 5 June 2002. After one ballot the election was won by Enda Kenny. Kenny defeated Richard Bruton, Gay Mitchell and Phil Hogan.

Candidates

Standing

Enda Kenny, TD for Mayo; former Minister for Tourism and Trade
Richard Bruton, TD for Dublin North-Central; former Minister for Enterprise and Employment
Gay Mitchell, TD for Dublin South-Central; former Minister of State for European Affairs
Phil Hogan, TD for Carlow–Kilkenny; former Minister of State at the Department of Finance

Declined to stand

Denis Naughten, TD for Roscommon–South Leitrim

Result

49 members of the Fine Gael parliamentary party voted: 31 TDs, 14 Senators and 4 MEPs. The exact results were kept secret. Young Fine Gael delegates Lucinda Creighton and Leo Varadkar, later to become important figures in the party, criticised the procedure, writing "candidates for the Leadership are already sowing the seeds of Fine Gael's next election defeat by trading votes for votes with senators determined to make it back to Leinster House at any cost. The decision of the parliamentary party to decide the future of Fine Gael alone and behind closed doors is a disgrace and demonstrates their contempt both for the loyal Fine Gael membership and the 400,000 or so electors who voted for them. Shame on you all."

References

[http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2010/0614/breaking38.html The line of leaders since FitzGerald] {{Webarchive. link. (2010-11-15 .''The Irish Times''. 14 June 2010.)
"The Fine Gael leadership contest".
"Enda Kenny elected leader of Fine Gael".
"FINE GAEL LEADERSHIP CONTEST".

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