Dan Quayle won with 53.8% of the vote (1,182,414 votes), ahead of Birch Bayh with 46.2% (1,015,962 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 7.6 percentage points (166,452 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 7.6 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 11.3 points toward Democrats.
2,198,376 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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