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2002 United States Senate election in Massachusetts

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Field	Value
election_name	2002 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
country	Massachusetts
type	presidential
ongoing	no
previous_election	1996 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
previous_year	1996
next_election	2008 United States Senate election in Massachusetts
next_year	2008
election_date	November 5, 2002
image_size	x150px
image1	John Kerry headshot with US flag (2).jpg
nominee1	John Kerry
party1	Democratic Party (United States)
popular_vote1	1,605,976
percentage1	80.03%
image2	3x4.svg
nominee2	Michael Cloud
party2	Libertarian Party (United States)
popular_vote2	369,807
percentage2	18.43%
map_image	{{switcher
default	1
map_size	250px
title	U.S. Senator
before_election	John Kerry
before_party	Democratic Party (United States)
after_election	John Kerry
after_party	Democratic Party (United States)

|[[File:2002 United States Senate election in Massachusetts results map by county.svg|300px]] |County results |[[File:2002 United States Senate Election in Massachusetts by Municipality.svg|300px|]] |Municipality results |[[File:MA Senate 2002.svg|300px|]] |Precinct results Kerry:
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, with no Republican filing to run. Kerry won every county, congressional district, municipality, and precinct in the state.

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 at that time, though this record has since been eclipsed by Joe Miller in Alaska in 2016 and Ricky Dale Harrington Jr. in Arkansas in 2020. Cloud also won the largest number of raw votes for a Libertarian candidate at the time, since eclipsed by Harrington.

Kerry's support for the invasion of Iraq also prompted a late write-in challenge by anti-war candidate Randall Forsberg.

Democratic primary

General election

Candidates

Michael Cloud (Libertarian)
Randall Forsberg, anti-war activist (Independent, write-in)
John Kerry, incumbent U.S. Senator since 1985 (Democratic)

Predictions

Source	Ranking	As of
Sabato's Crystal Ball		November 4, 2002

Results

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Barnstable (largest municipality: Barnstable)
Essex (largest municipality: Lynn)
Hampden (largest municipality: Springfield)
Plymouth (largest municipality: Brockton)
Worcester (largest municipality: Worcester)

References

(November 4, 2002). "Senate Races".
"PD43+ >> 2002 U.S. Senate General Election". [[Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth.
Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives. (2003-05-01). "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 2002". [[U.S. Government Printing Office]].

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