Barbara Boxer won with 57.7% of the vote (6,955,728 votes), ahead of Bill Jones with 37.8% (4,555,922 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 19.9 percentage points (2,399,806 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 19.9 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 0.7 points toward Democrats.
12,053,295 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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