Marco Rubio won with 48.9% of the vote (2,645,743 votes), ahead of Charlie Crist with 29.7% (1,607,549 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 19.2 percentage points (1,038,194 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 28.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 50.9 points toward Republicans. The winning party changed.
5,411,106 votes were counted in this race, for 11 candidates or options.
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