Mitch McConnell Republican Mitch McConnell Republican The 2002 United States Senate election in Kentucky was held on November 5, 2002.

Senator Mitch McConnell won re-election to a fourth term.

This election was McConnell's biggest margin of victory to date.

It is the only election in which he won Franklin County, and the most recent in which he won urban Jefferson and Fayette counties.

The latter two were the only Kentucky counties won by either Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Joe Biden in 2020, signifying their leftward drift.