United States Senate election in Alaska, 2002
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| Nominee | Ted Stevens | Frank Vondersaar | ||
| Party | Republican | Democratic | ||
| Popular vote | 179,438 | 24,133 | ||
| Percentage | 78.17% | 10.51% | ||
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The Alaska Senate Election saw the incumbent senator, Ted Stevens handily win another six year term as Senator. Stevens' margin of victory was well over 67 percent, 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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[edit] Candidates for Election
[edit] Republican Party
Ted Stevens, Incumbent, first appointed to the position in 1968 and elected in 1970.
[edit] Democratic Party
Frank Vondersaar, would run in the 2008 Democratic Primary for Stevens' seat, but lost to Mark Begich
[edit] Green Party
[edit] Alaskan Independence Party
[edit] Libertarian Party
[edit] Election Results
| 2002 United States Senate election, Alaska | |||||
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| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
| Republican | Ted Stevens (incumbent) | 179,438 | 78.17 | +1.46 | |
| Democratic | Frank Vondersaar | 24,133 | 10.51 | +0.17 | |
| Green | Jim Sykes | 16,608 | 7.24 | -5.28 | |
| Alaskan Independence | Jim Dore | 6,724 | 2.93 | +2.93 | |
| Libertarian | Leonard Karpinski | 2,354 | 1.03 | +1.03 | |
| No party | Write-In Votes | 291 | 0.13 | -0.31 | |
| Majority | 155,305 | 67.66 | |||
| Turnout | 229,548 | ||||
| Republican hold | Swing | ||||
