The 2002 United States Senate election in Michigan was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent
Democratic U.S. Senator
Carl Levin
Carl Milton Levin (June 28, 1934 – July 29, 2021) was an American attorney and politician who served as a List of United States senators from Michigan, United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party (U ...
won re-election to a fifth term.
General election
Candidates
* Eric Borregard (Green)
* Doug Dern (Natural Law)
*
Carl Levin
Carl Milton Levin (June 28, 1934 – July 29, 2021) was an American attorney and politician who served as a List of United States senators from Michigan, United States senator from Michigan from 1979 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party (U ...
, incumbent U.S. Senator (Democratic)
*John Mangopoulos (Reform)
*
Rocky Raczkowski, State Representative from
Farmington Hills (Republican)
Predictions
Results
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,
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Democratic hold
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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
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Newaygo (Largest city:
Fremont)
*
Sanilac (Largest city:
Sandusky)
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Ionia
Ionia ( ) was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who ...
(largest city:
Ionia
Ionia ( ) was an ancient region encompassing the central part of the western coast of Anatolia. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements. Never a unified state, it was named after the Ionians who ...
)
*
Clinton (largest city:
St. Johns)
*
Leelanau (largest settlement:
Greilickville)
See also
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2002 United States Senate elections
The 2002 United States Senate elections featured a series of fiercely contested elections that resulted in a victory for the Republican Party, which gained two seats and thus a narrow majority from the Democratic Party in the United States Sena ...
References
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Senate
A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...
Michigan
Michigan ( ) is a peninsular U.S. state, state in the Great Lakes region, Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest, Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, ...
2002
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