Patty Murray won with 54.0% of the vote (1,197,973 votes), ahead of Rod Chandler with 46.0% (1,020,829 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 8.0 percentage points (177,144 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 8.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 10.2 points toward Democrats. The winning party changed.
2,218,802 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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