Dave Durenberger won with 52.6% of the vote (949,207 votes), ahead of Mark Dayton with 46.6% (840,401 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 6.0 percentage points (108,806 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 6.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 10.1 points toward Democrats.
1,804,675 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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