Hillary Rodham Clinton won with 53.8% of the vote (3,747,310 votes), ahead of Rick Lazio with 41.9% (2,915,730 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 11.9 percentage points (831,580 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 11.9 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 2.1 points toward Democrats.
6,959,662 votes were counted in this race, for 9 candidates or options.
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