United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2002

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United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2002
← 1996 November 5, 2002 2008 →
  John F. Kerry.jpg
Nominee John Kerry Michael Cloud
Party Democratic Libertarian
Popular vote 1,605,976 369,807
Percentage 80.0% 18.4%
Massachusetts Election Results by County, all Democratic.svg
County results
U.S. senator before election

John Kerry
Democratic

 Elected U.S. Senator

John Kerry
Democratic

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. The 2002 United States Senate election in Massachusetts took place on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator John Kerry won re-election to a fourth term against Libertarian Michael Cloud. The lack of a Republican party candidate caused Cloud to receive the largest percentage of votes for a U.S. Senate candidate in the Libertarian Party's history.

Major candidates

Democratic

Libertarian

  • Michael Cloud

Results

General election results
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Democratic John Kerry (Incumbent) 1,605,976 80.03%
Libertarian Michael Cloud 369,807 18.43%
Independent Randall Forsberg (write-in) 24,898 1.24%
All others 6,077 0.30
Total votes 2,220,301 100%

External links

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