Christopher S. Murphy won with 58.6% of the vote (1,000,695 votes), ahead of Matthew M. Corey with 39.7% (678,256 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 18.9 percentage points (322,439 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Democratic lead of 18.9 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 1.3 points toward Republicans.
1,708,259 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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