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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.
The 1976 primaries matched the record previously set in 1972 for the highest number of candidates in any presidential primaries in American history, with 16. During the primaries, Jimmy Carter capitalized on his status as an outsider. The 1976 campaign was the first in which primaries and caucuses carried more weight than the old boss-dominated ...
1976 Democratic primaries 1976 U.S. presidential election: Candidate: Jimmy Carter 76th Governor of Georgia (1971–1975) Walter Mondale U.S. Senator from Minnesota (1964–1976) Affiliation: Democratic Party: Status: Announced: December 12, 1974 Presumptive nominee: June 24, 1976 Official nominee: July 15, 1976 Won election: November 2, 1976
The 1976 Arkansas Democratic Party presidential primary was held on May 25 as part of the 1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries to elect 26 delegates to the 1976 Democratic National Convention. It was the first Democratic presidential primary held in the state of Arkansas. Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter handily won the contest by 46 ...
1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries This page was last edited on 7 August 2020, at 08:42 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Carter was the first Democratic presidential nominee since John F. Kennedy in 1960 to carry states in the Deep South (Bill Clinton was the only Democrat since 1976 to carry more than one state from the Deep South, doing so in 1992), and the only one since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 to carry a majority of all southern states. Carter performed ...
Although the U.S. has been electing presidents since the late 1700s, it was not until 1972 that Iowa held its first caucuses.
Pages in category "1976 United States Democratic presidential primaries by state" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .