Thad Cochran won with 61.4% of the vote (766,111 votes), ahead of Erik Fleming with 38.6% (480,915 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 22.9 percentage points (285,196 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 22.9 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 5.8 points toward Democrats.
1,247,026 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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