Joe Lieberman won with 49.8% of the vote (688,499 votes), ahead of Jr. Lowell P. Weicher with 49.0% (678,454 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.7 percentage points (10,045 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 29.2 points toward Republicans.
1,383,526 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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