Sheldon Whitehouse won with 53.5% of the vote (206,043 votes), ahead of Lincoln Chafee with 46.5% (178,950 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 7.0 percentage points (27,093 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 7.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 49.8 points toward Republicans.
384,993 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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