Catherine Cortez Masto won with 48.8% of the vote (498,316 votes), ahead of Adam Paul Laxalt with 48.0% (490,388 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.8 percentage points (7,928 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 0.8 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 4.3 points toward Republicans.
1,020,850 votes were counted in this race, for 6 candidates or options.
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