John B. Breaux won with 52.8% of the vote (723,586 votes), ahead of W. Henson Moore with 47.2% (646,311 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 5.6 percentage points (77,275 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 5.6 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 94.4 points toward Republicans.
1,369,897 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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