John B. Breaux won with 64.0% of the vote (620,502 votes), ahead of \Jim\ with 31.6% (306,616 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 32.4 percentage points (313,886 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 32.6 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 32.2 points toward Democrats.
969,165 votes were counted in this race, for 8 candidates or options.
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