Kent Conrad won with 68.8% of the vote (150,146 votes), ahead of Dwight Grotberg with 29.5% (64,417 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 39.3 percentage points (85,729 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 39.3 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 2.7 points toward Democrats.
218,152 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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