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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and Minnesota senator Walter Mondale narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Gerald Ford and Kansas senator Bob Dole.
Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic gain: Popular vote margin: Democratic +2.1%: Electoral vote: Jimmy Carter (D) 297: Gerald Ford (R) 240: 1976 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Ford, blue denotes states won by Carter. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate. Senate elections; Overall ...
Map of the 1976 U.S. presidential election, blue represents Carter winning that state/district, red represents Ford winning that state, light red represents Reagan received a vote. On November 2, 1976, Ford lost the election to Democratic nominee Jimmy Carter. Carter won 297 electoral votes and 50.1% of the popular vote while Ford only received ...
From January 27 to June 8, 1976, voters of the Democratic Party chose its nominee for president in the 1976 United States presidential election.Former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter was selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1976 Democratic National Convention held from July 12 to July 15, 1976, in New York City.
President Jimmy Carter with Rev Martin Luther King Sr, Georgia, 1976. Credit - PhotoQuest/Getty Images. T he career of Jimmy Carter, the U.S. President who died on Dec. 29 at age 100, will be ...
This article provides a list of scientific, nationwide public opinion polls that were conducted relating to the 1976 United States presidential election.
The 1976 election marks the first time that Republican primaries or caucuses were held in every state and D.C.; the Democrats had done so in 1972. It was also the last election in which the Republican nominee was undetermined at the start of the party's national convention.
Electoral college results for 1976 U.S. presidential election. On election day, Carter carried 23 states with 297 electoral votes, while Ford won 27 states with 240 electoral votes (one faithless elector pledged to Ford, from Washington state, voted for Reagan). [81] The electoral vote was the closest since 1916.