Tammy Baldwin won with 49.3% of the vote (1,672,777 votes), ahead of Eric Hovde with 48.5% (1,643,996 votes).
The margin between the first two candidates was 0.8 percentage points (28,781 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 1.9 points toward Democrats. The winning party changed.
3,390,787 votes were counted in this race, for 4 candidates or options.
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