Election Name: | 2002 United States Senate election in Kentucky |
Country: | Kentucky |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1996 United States Senate election in Kentucky |
Previous Year: | 1996 |
Next Election: | 2008 United States Senate election in Kentucky |
Next Year: | 2008 |
Election Date: | November 5, 2002 |
Nominee1: | Mitch McConnell |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 731,679 |
Percentage1: | 64.68% |
Nominee2: | Lois Combs Weinberg |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 399,634 |
Percentage2: | 35.32% |
Map Size: | 300px |
U.S. Senator | |
Before Election: | Mitch McConnell |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Mitch McConnell |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 2002 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell won re-election to a fourth term. This election was McConnell's biggest margin of victory to date. It is the only election in which he won Franklin County, and the most recent in which he won urban Jefferson and Fayette counties. The latter two were the only Kentucky counties won by either Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Joe Biden in 2020, signifying their leftward drift.
McConnell was unopposed.