Bill Frist won with 56.4% of the vote (834,226 votes), ahead of Jim Sasser with 42.1% (623,164 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 14.3 percentage points (211,062 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 14.3 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 52.2 points toward Republicans. The winning party changed.
1,480,391 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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