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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 runningmate Walter Mondale, the senior senator from Minnesota, narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of Gerald Ford, the incumbent president, and his runningmate Bob Dole, the junior senator from Kansas.
The most tightly contested state in the election was Oregon; Ford won that state by under 2,000 votes. [83] Carter's winning 23 states was only the first time since Kennedy's victory, and the second time in history, that the winner of the election won fewer than half the states. [84] President Ford conceded the race to Carter the same night.
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 ...
The 1976 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Texas was won by former governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia with 51.14% of the vote, [2] giving him 26 electoral votes. This result made Texas about 1% more Democratic than the nation-at-large.
Carter's 1976 campaign for the Democratic nomination firmly established primaries as the institution they remain today, the vehicles to win convention delegates and clinch nominations.
Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but he appealed to ...
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 control: Democratic hold: Seats contested: 34 of 100 seats: Net seat change: Republican +1: 1976 Senate results
The 1976 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 2, 1976. The Democratic candidate, former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter, overwhelmingly won his home state with 66.74% of the vote ahead of the Republican Party candidate, incumbent President Gerald Ford, giving him the state's 12 electoral votes.