The 2002 Arkansas lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 5, 2002, to elect the lieutenant governor of Arkansas. Republican incumbent Winthrop Paul Rockefeller won re-election to a second full term, defeating Democratic lawyer Ronald Lee Sheffield by nearly twenty percentage points.
Rockefeller would not serve out his second term in full as he would go on to die of an unclassified myeloproliferative disorder in 2006.
General election Candidates Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, incumbent lieutenant governor of Arkansas (1996–2006) (Republican) Ronald Lee Sheffield, lawyer (Democratic) Results
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