Ken Salazar won with 51.3% of the vote (1,081,188 votes), ahead of Pete Coors with 46.5% (980,668 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 4.8 percentage points (100,520 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 4.8 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 9.7 points toward Democrats. The winning party changed.
2,107,472 votes were counted in this race, for 7 candidates or options.
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