state2002 Senate electionMississippi · U.S. SenateCochranR+69.2
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How it voted
Share of the 2002 vote
Thad Cochran (i) ✓Republican
84.6%
533,269
Shawn O'HaraIndependent · Reform
15.4%
97,226
2002Senate margin
D+60
D+30TieR+30
R+60
82 counties, each filled by 2002 D-vs-R margin. Hover any county for its result.
Mississippi Democrats did not nominate a candidate in 2002. Shawn O'Hara ran as an Independent and was the principal challenger to Thad Cochran (R). The county map below is the actual Thad Cochran–Shawn O'Hara contest: Independent-won counties are gold, and major-party-won counties use the true candidate-to-candidate margin. The D–R presidential-baseline comparison is withheld because that axis does not describe this contest.
Mississippi's Senate margins
Every comparable D–R contest in our store, 1976–2024 · 2002 is shown above as an R–I contest
Source. MIT Election Data + Science Lab — 2002 US Senate returns, party-classified by literal ballot party · county returns aggregated from precinct-level results. Mississippi had no Democratic nominee in this contest; the county view is therefore keyed to the actual major-party-versus-Independent matchup rather than a D–R axis. Real returns — nothing estimated.
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