Marco Rubio won with 52.0% of the vote (4,835,191 votes), ahead of Patrick Murphy with 44.3% (4,122,088 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 7.7 percentage points (713,103 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 7.7 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 20.7 points toward Republicans. The winning party changed.
9,301,820 votes were counted in this race, for 8 candidates or options.
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