James R. Sasser won with 52.5% of the vote (751,180 votes), ahead of Bill Brock with 47.0% (673,231 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 5.4 percentage points (77,949 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 5.4 points.
1,432,046 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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