John Ashcroft won with 59.7% of the vote (1,060,149 votes), ahead of Alan Wheat with 35.7% (633,697 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 24.0 percentage points (426,452 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 24.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 17.1 points toward Republicans.
1,775,116 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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