Don Nickles won with 58.5% of the vote (757,876 votes), ahead of Steve Lewis with 38.2% (494,350 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 20.4 percentage points (263,526 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 20.4 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 86.7 points toward Republicans. The winning party changed.
1,294,423 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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