Jim Demint won with 53.7% of the vote (857,167 votes), ahead of Inez Tenenbaum with 44.1% (704,384 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 9.6 percentage points (152,783 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 9.6 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 0.6 points toward Democrats.
1,597,221 votes were counted in this race, for 6 candidates or options.
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