Jeff Merkley won with 48.9% of the vote (864,392 votes), ahead of Gordon H. Smith with 45.5% (805,159 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 3.4 percentage points (59,233 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 3.4 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 28.3 points toward Republicans.
1,767,504 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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