Ted Cruz won with 53.1% of the vote (5,990,741 votes), ahead of Colin Allred with 44.6% (5,031,249 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 8.5 percentage points (959,492 votes). The party margin (Republican share minus Democratic share) was a Republican lead of 8.5 points.
Compared with the previous comparable race in the same area, the party margin moved 1.1 points toward Democrats.
11,291,854 votes were counted in this race, for 3 candidates or options.
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