2002 United States Senate election in Minnesota
The 2002 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 5, 2002. Incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone won the Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party (DFL) renomination on September 10 primaries, but he was killed in a plane crash eleven days before the election. The DFL quickly chose former Vice President and 1984 presidential nominee Walter Mondale to replace Wellstone on the ballot. Mondale had previously held the seat from 1964 to 1976, resigning to assume the vice presidency. Mondale narrowly lost to Republican Norm Coleman, the former mayor of Saint Paul. The day before the election, Governor Jesse Ventura had appointed the 1996 Independence Party candidate, Dean Barkley, to serve the remainder of Wellstone's term. This is the last time in a midterm election that the party controlling the White House flipped a Senate seat in a state they did not win in the preceding presidential election. Wellstone was the last incumbent senator to die ahead of an election after being nominated...
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