The 2002 United States Senate election in Arkansas was held on November 5, 2002. Incumbent
Republican U.S. Senator
Tim Hutchinson ran for a second term, but was defeated by
Democratic candidate
Mark Pryor, whose father
David had held the seat from 1979 to 1997. This was the only Senate seat in the
2002 midterm elections to switch from Republican to Democratic, and Hutchinson was the only incumbent Republican senator to lose reelection during that cycle.