Barbara A. Mikulski won with 60.7% of the vote (675,225 votes), ahead of Linda Chavez with 39.3% (437,411 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 21.4 percentage points (237,814 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 21.4 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 5.5 points toward Republicans.
1,112,637 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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