Kent Conrad won with 49.8% of the vote (143,932 votes), ahead of Mark Andrews with 49.1% (141,812 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.7 percentage points (2,120 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 0.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 28.1 points toward Republicans.
289,013 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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