2002 Massachusetts elections

Republicans Mitt Romney and Kerry Healey were elected governor and lieutenant governor, respectively, over Democratic candidates Shannon O'Brien and Chris Gabrieli, Green-Rainbow candidates Jill Stein and Tony Lorenzen, Libertarian candidates Carla Howell and Rich Aucoin, and independent candidates Barbara C. Johnson and Joe Schebel.

Democrat William F. Galvin was re-elected Secretary of the Commonwealth for a third term. He defeated Perennial candidate Jack E. Robinson III in the general election.

2002 Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth Election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	William F. Galvin (incumbent)	1,472,562	73.97%	3.95
	Republican	Jack E. Robinson III	516,260	25.93%	0.76
	Write-in	All others	1,832	0.09%
Turnout			1,990,654
	Democratic hold		Swing

Democrat Thomas Reilly ran unopposed.

2002 Massachusetts Attorney General Election

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Democratic	Thomas Reilly (incumbent)	1,602,817	99.24%	32.47
	Write-in	All others	12,326	0.76%	0.65
Total votes			1,615,143	100.00%
	Democratic hold		Swing

2002 Massachusetts Treasurer election

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Nominee Timothy P. Cahill Daniel Grabauskas James O'Keefe Party Democratic Republican Green-Rainbow Popular vote 1,040,281 848,904 163,559 Percentage 50.7% 41.3% 8.0%

Treasurer and Receiver-General before election Shannon O'Brien Democratic Elected Treasurer and Receiver-General Timothy P. Cahill Democratic

Democratic primary

Candidates

• Michael P. Cahill, State Representative from Beverly
• Timothy P. Cahill, Norfolk County Treasurer
• Jim Segel, former State Representative from Brookline and Executive Director of the Massachusetts Municipal Association
• Stephen J. Murphy, Member of the Boston City Council

Results

Republican primary

Candidates

• Dan Grabauskas, Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles
• Bruce A. Herzfelder, businessman

Results

General election

Results

Democrat A. Joseph DeNucci was re-elected Auditor. He defeated Libertarian Kamal Jain and Independent John James Xenakis.

Democratic incumbent John Kerry was re-elected over his Libertarian challenger Michael Cloud.

see 2002 Massachusetts Senate election ^[3]

see 2002 Massachusetts House election ^[3]

See 2002 Massachusetts Governor's Council election

There were three statewide ballot questions, all initiatives, which Massachusetts voters considered in this election. There were also various local ballot questions around the Commonwealth.

Number	Title	Type	Subject	Result (excludes blank ballots)[4]	Ref.
Question 1	Eliminating State Personal Income Tax	Initiative Petition	Taxes	N Failed (48%–40%)	[5]
Question 2	English Language Education in Public Schools	Initiative Petition	Education	Y Passed (61%–29%)	[6]
Question 3	Taxpayer Funding for Political Campaigns	Advisory Question	Taxes, Elections	N Failed (66%–23%)	[7]

Question 1

Abolishing the state income tax. A law to eliminate any state personal income tax for income or other gain realized on or after July 1, 2003.^[8]

Question 2

English Language Education in Public Schools Initiative: Abolishing bilingual education and replacing it with a one-year program of rapid English immersion. A law that would require that, with limited exceptions, all public-school children must be taught all subjects in English.^[9]

Question 3

Taxpayer funding for Clean Elections. A non-binding question relative to the funding of political campaigns for public office.^[9]

• "Nov 5, 2002 general election", PD43+ Massachusetts Election Statistics, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts