Mary L. Landrieu won with 50.2% of the vote (852,945 votes), ahead of Louis \Woody\ with 49.8% (847,157 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.3 percentage points (5,788 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 0.3 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 99.7 points toward Republicans.
1,700,102 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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