Massachusetts United States Senate election, 2002

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The United States Senate election of 2002 in Massachusetts was held on November 5, 2002 with the incumbent Democratic Senator John Kerry defeating his challengers.

Contents 1 Results 2 Candidates 2.1 Democratic Party 2.2 Libertarian Party 3 External links and references

[edit] Results

Massachusetts United States Senate election, 2002
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	John Kerry	1,605,976	80.0
	Libertarian	Michael Cloud	369,807	18.4
	Democratic	Randall Forsberg (write-in)	24,898	1.2
		All others	6,077	0.3
Total votes			2,006,758
		Blank	213,543
Turnout			2,220,301

[edit] Candidates

[edit] Democratic Party

• Senator John Kerry - incumbent Senator elected in 1984 and reelected in 1990 and 1996. Subsequently ran for president in 2004.
• Randall Forsberg (Write-In) - anti-war write-in candidate to protest John Kerry's support of the invasion of Iraq.

[edit] Libertarian Party

• Michael Cloud

[edit] External links and references

• 2002 Statewide Election results

Recent Massachusetts elections (with winners)
General		2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
State	State Senate:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
	State House:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
	Governor:	1982 (Dukakis), 1986 (Dukakis), 1990 (Weld), 1994 (Weld), 1998 (Cellucci), 2002 (Romney), 2006 (Patrick), 2010
	Council:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
Federal	U.S. Senate:	Class 1: 1982 (Kennedy), 1988 (Kennedy), 1994 (Kennedy), 2000 (Kennedy), 2006 (Kennedy), 2012 Class 2: 1978 (Tsongas), 1984 (Kerry), 1990 (Kerry), 1996 (Kerry), 2002 (Kerry), 2008
	U.S. House:	2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
	President :	2000, 2004, 2008