Wyche Fowler Jr. won with 50.9% of the vote (623,707 votes), ahead of Mack Mattingly with 49.1% (601,241 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 1.8 percentage points (22,466 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 1.8 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 58.1 points toward Republicans.
1,225,008 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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