Election Name: | 2002 United States Senate election in Alaska |
Country: | Alaska |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1996 United States Senate election in Alaska |
Previous Year: | 1996 |
Next Election: | 2008 United States Senate election in Alaska |
Next Year: | 2008 |
Election Date: | November 5, 2002 |
Image1: | Ted Stevens (cropped).jpg |
Nominee1: | Ted Stevens |
Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
Popular Vote1: | 179,438 |
Percentage1: | 78.17% |
Nominee2: | Frank Vondersaar |
Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
Popular Vote2: | 24,133 |
Percentage2: | 10.51% |
Image3: | 3x4.svg |
Nominee3: | Jim Sykes |
Party3: | Green Party (United States) |
Popular Vote3: | 16,608 |
Percentage3: | 7.24% |
Map Size: | 325px |
U.S. Senator | |
Before Election: | Ted Stevens |
Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
After Election: | Ted Stevens |
After Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
The 2002 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican United States Senator Ted Stevens ran for and won a seventh term (a sixth full term) in the United States Senate. He faced perennial candidate Frank Vondersaar, the Democratic nominee, journalist Jim Sykes, the Green Party nominee, and several other independent candidates in his bid for re-election. Ultimately, Stevens crushed his opponents to win what would be his last term in the Senate, allowing him to win the highest percentage of the vote in any of his elections. This would be the last Senate election in the state until 2020 when the winning candidate received a majority of the vote.
On the same night, Frank Murkowski was elected as Governor of Alaska. He would resign from Alaska's Class 3 U.S. Senate seat and then appoint his daughter, Lisa Murkowski, to fill the vacancy on December 20.