Henry McMaster won with 58.0% of the vote (981,061 votes), ahead of Joe Cunningham with 40.7% (687,230 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 17.4 percentage points (293,831 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 17.4 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 9.4 points toward Republicans.
1,690,122 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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