Kathleen Connell Democratic Steve Westly Democratic Mayoral elections: Mayoral elections: Mayoral elections: Mayoral elections: Mayoral elections: Mayoral elections: The 2002 California State Controller election was on November 5, 2002.

The primary elections took place on March 5, 2002.

Businessman Steve Westly, the Democratic nominee, narrowly defeated the Republican nominee, Senator Tom McClintock, for the office previously held by Kathleen Connell, who was term-limited.

A bar graph of statewide results in this contest are available at https://web.archive.org/web/20080905210455/http://primary2002.ss.ca.gov/Returns/ctl/00.htm.

Steve Westly, Venture Capitalist Johan Klehs, Member of The State Board of Equalization Tom McClintock, State Senator, nominee for CA-24 in 1992 and nominee for Controller in 1994 Dean Andal, Former Assemblyman W. Snow Hume Nancy Beecham Results from the Secretary of State of California:[1]