Russel D. Feingold won with 55.4% of the vote (1,632,697 votes), ahead of Tim Michels with 44.1% (1,301,183 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 11.2 percentage points (331,514 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 11.2 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 13.3 points toward Republicans.
2,949,743 votes were counted in this race, for 5 candidates or options.
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