Mack Mattingly won with 50.9% of the vote (803,686 votes), ahead of Herman E. Talmadge with 49.1% (776,143 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 1.7 percentage points (27,543 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 1.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 68.0 points toward Republicans. The winning party changed.
1,579,829 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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