Max Baucus won with 68.1% of the vote (217,563 votes), ahead of Allen C. Kolstad with 29.4% (93,836 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 38.7 percentage points (123,727 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 38.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 42.5 points toward Democrats. The winning party changed.
319,336 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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