Sherrod Brown won with 53.4% of the vote (2,355,923 votes), ahead of Jim Renacci with 46.6% (2,053,963 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 6.8 percentage points (301,960 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 6.8 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 27.7 points toward Democrats. The winning party changed.
4,410,898 votes were counted in this race, for 2 candidates or options.
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