Thom Tillis won with 48.8% of the vote (1,423,259 votes), ahead of Kay R. Hagan with 47.3% (1,377,651 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 1.6 percentage points (45,608 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 1.6 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 10.2 points toward Democrats.
2,915,281 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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