Trent Lott won with 65.9% of the vote (654,941 votes), ahead of Sr. Troy D. Brown with 31.6% (314,090 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 34.3 percentage points (340,851 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 34.3 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 9.4 points toward Democrats.
994,144 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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