Richard Shelby won with 50.3% of the vote (609,360 votes), ahead of Jeremiah Denton with 49.7% (602,537 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.6 percentage points (6,823 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 0.6 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 25.8 points toward Republicans.
1,211,897 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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