Patty Murray won with 58.4% of the vote (1,103,184 votes), ahead of Linda Smith with 41.6% (785,377 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 16.8 percentage points (317,807 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 16.8 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 28.3 points toward Democrats. The winning party changed.
1,888,561 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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