Bill Nelson won with 51.0% of the vote (2,989,487 votes), ahead of Bill McCollum with 46.2% (2,705,348 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 4.9 percentage points (284,139 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 4.9 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 20.1 points toward Republicans.
5,856,731 votes were counted in this race, for 7 candidates or options.
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