2002 United States Senate election in Delaware

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2002 United States Senate election in Delaware
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  1996 November 5, 2002 2008  
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Nominee Joe Biden Raymond Clatworthy
Party Democratic Republican
Popular vote135,25394,793
Percentage58.22%40.80%

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2002 United States Senate election in Delaware results map by state house district.svg
Biden:     50–60%     60–70%     70–80%     80–90%
Clatworthy:     50–60%

U.S. senator before election

Joe Biden
Democratic

Elected U.S. Senator

Joe Biden
Democratic

The 2002 United States Senate election in Delaware was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Biden won re-election to a sixth term, defeating Raymond Clatworthy in a rematch. This is the last Senate election that Biden decreased his percentage of the votes since the previous election and the only time Biden lost Kent County in his seven elections to the Senate.

Contents

With this election, Biden became the first senator in Delaware to win six terms and became the state's longest-serving senator.

General Election

Candidates

Predictions

SourceRankingAs of
Sabato's Crystal Ball [4] Safe DNovember 4, 2002

Results

General election results [5]
PartyCandidateVotes%±%
Democratic Joe Biden (incumbent) 135,253 58.22% -1.82%
Republican Raymond J. Clatworthy94,79340.80%+2.67%
Independent Party Maurice Barros9960.43%
Libertarian Raymond T. Buranello9220.40%-0.82%
Natural Law Robert E. Mattson3500.15%-0.47%
Majority40,46017.42%-4.49%
Turnout 232,314
Democratic hold Swing

County results

County [6] Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

Democratic

Raymond J. Clatworthy

Republican

Maurice Barros

Delaware Independent

Raymond T. Buranello

Libertarian

Robert E. Mattson

Natural Law

Total votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %
Kent 16,78648.82%17,31050.35%1580.46%990.29%270.08%34,380
New Castle 91,55463.02%52,12935.88%7110.49%6210.43%2650.18%145,280
Sussex 26,83051.11%25,27748.15%2150.41%1120.21%580.11%52,492
Total135,25358.22%94,79340.80%9960.43%9220.40%3500.15%232,152

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

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