Barbara Boxer won with 53.1% of the vote (4,410,056 votes), ahead of Matt Fong with 43.0% (3,575,078 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 10.0 percentage points (834,978 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 10.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 8.1 points toward Democrats.
8,311,905 votes were counted in this race, for 7 candidates or options.
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