Christopher S. Murphy won with 59.5% of the vote (825,579 votes), ahead of Matthew Corey with 39.4% (545,717 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 20.2 percentage points (279,862 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 20.2 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 8.4 points toward Republicans.
1,386,840 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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