Alfonse D'Amato won with 44.7% of the vote (3,166,994 votes), ahead of Robert Abrams with 43.6% (3,086,200 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 1.1 percentage points (80,794 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 1.1 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 37.1 points toward Republicans. The winning party changed.
7,078,805 votes were counted in this race, for 7 candidates or options.
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