Richard C. Shelby won with 64.8% of the vote (1,022,698 votes), ahead of Richard Sellers with 33.1% (522,015 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 31.7 percentage points (500,683 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 31.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 10.6 points toward Democrats.
1,577,799 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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