Christopher J. Dodd won with 58.8% of the vote (882,569 votes), ahead of Brook Johnson with 38.1% (572,036 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 20.7 percentage points (310,533 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 20.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 20.0 points toward Democrats.
1,500,661 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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