Robert Menendez won with 53.4% of the vote (1,200,843 votes), ahead of Jr. Thomas H. Kean with 44.3% (997,775 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 9.0 percentage points (203,068 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 9.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 0.9 points toward Republicans.
2,250,070 votes were counted in this race, for 9 candidates or options.
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