Kay Bailey Hutchison won with 60.8% of the vote (2,604,218 votes), ahead of Richard Fisher with 38.3% (1,639,615 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 22.5 percentage points (964,603 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 22.5 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 0.3 points toward Democrats.
4,279,940 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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