Sherrod Brown won with 50.7% of the vote (2,762,690 votes), ahead of Josh Mandel with 44.7% (2,435,712 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 6.0 percentage points (326,978 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 6.0 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 23.4 points toward Democrats. The winning party changed.
5,449,018 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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