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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of Jimmy Carter, the former governor of Georgia, and his running mate Walter Mondale, the senior senator from Minnesota, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford, the incumbent president, and his running mate Bob Dole, the junior senator from Kansas.
In the 1960s, for three elections straight beginning with John F. Kennedy in 1960, Democrats had won landslides of over 60% of the vote, with Republicans failing to break 40%. Even in the GOP landslide of 1972, Massachusetts had clocked in as a whopping 32% more Democratic than the nation.
A landslide victory is an election result in which the winning candidate or party achieves a decisive victory by an overwhelming margin, securing a very large majority of votes or seats far beyond the typical competitive outcome.
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 control: Democratic hold: Seats contested: 34 of 100 seats: Net seat change: Republican +1: 1976 Senate results
Events from the year 1976 in the United States. Major events include Jimmy Carter defeating incumbent president Gerald Ford in the presidential election of that year, the incorporation of Apple Computer Company and Microsoft , and the New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that Karen Ann Quinlan could be disconnected from her ventilator.
After the election, President Ford assured his co-operation in the transfer of power. [88] Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as the 39th president of the United States on January 20, 1977. He lost his re-election campaign in 1980 in a landslide to the Republican nominee, Ronald Reagan. [89] Reagan defeated Walter Mondale in the 1984 presidential ...
The effect of Watergate on the political landscape in Minnesota can be clearly seen in the results of this election, as well as the landslide DFL victory in the 1974 gubernatorial election. Previously Minnesota had cast its electoral votes for the Republican nominee in twenty of the twenty-nine presidential elections from 1860 to 1972.
The 1976 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose seven representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College , who voted for president and vice president .