Bill Bradley won with 50.4% of the vote (977,810 votes), ahead of Christine Todd Whitman with 47.4% (918,874 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 3.0 percentage points (58,936 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 3.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 5.3 points toward Republicans.
1,938,454 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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