The 2002 United States Senate election in Alaska was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Ted Stevens

Ted Stevens

Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens, Sr. was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history...

 won re-election to a seventh term.

Republican

• Ted Stevens
  Ted Stevens
  Theodore Fulton "Ted" Stevens, Sr. was a United States Senator from Alaska, serving from December 24, 1968, until January 3, 2009, and thus the longest-serving Republican senator in history...
  
  , incumbent U.S. Senator who was first appointed to the position in 1968 and elected in 1970.

Results

Analysis

He won by a margin of 67%, with his nearest opponent, Democratic candidate Frank Vondersaar earning just over ten percent of the vote. In fact, all of Ted Stevens' opponents held just under a 22 percent share of the vote combined. This election was a record setter in many ways for Ted Stevens: He earned the highest margin of victory in his career in the Senate, the largest percentage total of his career (besting his 1972 total of 77.3 percent of the vote), and the largest margin of victory for any contested Senate election in the State of Alaska.

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