John Cornyn won with 55.3% of the vote (2,496,243 votes), ahead of Ron Kirk with 43.3% (1,955,758 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 12.0 percentage points (540,485 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 12.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 20.8 points toward Democrats.
4,514,012 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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