John F. Kerry won with 72.3% of the vote (1,605,976 votes), ahead of Michael E. Cloud with 16.7% (369,807 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 55.7 percentage points (1,236,169 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 72.3 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 15.4 points toward Democrats.
2,220,301 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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