Wayne Allard won with 50.7% of the vote (717,893 votes), ahead of Tom Strickland with 45.8% (648,130 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 4.9 percentage points (69,763 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 4.9 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 22.5 points toward Democrats.
1,416,082 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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