Republican Sen. Ashley Moody is projected to win Florida’s U.S. Senate race, defeating Democrat Angie Nixon, NBC News reports. 

With an estimated 95.5% of the expected vote counted, Moody had 4,028,060 votes, or 50.7%, compared with Nixon’s 3,834,136 votes, or 48.2%.

Independent candidate Neil Gillespie had 89,990 votes, or 1.1%.

Nearly 8 million votes had been counted, with an estimated 380,000 votes remaining.

Moody entered the race as the incumbent and will keep the seat in Republican hands.