Tom Daschle won with 62.1% of the vote (162,884 votes), ahead of Ron Schmidt with 36.4% (95,431 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 25.7 percentage points (67,453 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 25.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 23.1 points toward Democrats.
262,111 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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