Robert Menendez won with 54.0% of the vote (1,711,654 votes), ahead of Bob Hugin with 42.8% (1,357,355 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 11.2 percentage points (354,299 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 11.2 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 2.3 points toward Republicans.
3,169,310 votes were counted in this race, for 8 candidates or options.
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