sentences:  Brown won the general election with 665,608 votes (51.1 percent) to Thompson's 617,907 (48.9 percent).The percent for Brown and Jeffers from the primary was a combined 52.2 percent, or 1.1 percentage points more than what Brown finally received in the final phase of the race.Thompson and Bruce in the first round of balloting had a combined 47.7 percent, or 1.2 percentage points below what Thompson finally received.