Lisa Murkowski won with 39.6% of the vote (101,091 votes), ahead of Joe Miller with 35.5% (90,839 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 4.0 percentage points (10,252 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 12.1 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 13.3 points toward Republicans. The winning party changed.
255,503 votes were counted in this race, for 6 candidates or options.
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