Thomas R. Carper won with 70.2% of the vote (170,567 votes), ahead of Jan Ting with 28.7% (69,734 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 41.5 percentage points (100,833 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 41.5 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 24.1 points toward Democrats.
242,972 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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