John P. East won with 50.0% of the vote (898,064 votes), ahead of Robert Morgan with 49.4% (887,653 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.6 percentage points (10,411 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 0.6 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 8.4 points toward Democrats.
1,797,665 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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