United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 2002

November 5, 2002



Nominee	John Kerry	Michael Cloud
Party	Democratic	Libertarian
Popular vote	1,605,976	369,807
Percentage	80.0%	18.4%

County results

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John Kerry
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

John Kerry
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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

John Kerry, incumbent U.S. Senator elected first in 1984

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%

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