Lawton Chiles won with 63.0% of the vote (1,799,518 votes), ahead of John Grady with 37.0% (1,057,886 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 26.0 percentage points (741,632 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 26.0 points.
2,857,534 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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