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1976 United States presidential election
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Turnout
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1.7
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Presidential election results map.
Blue
denotes states won by Carter/Mondale and
red
denotes those won by Ford/Dole. Pink is the electoral vote for
Ronald Reagan
by a
Washington
faithless elector
. Numbers indicate the number of
electoral votes
cast by each state and the District of Columbia.
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The
1976 United States presidential election
happened on November 2, 1976.
Jimmy Carter
, the
Democratic
candidate and former Governor of Georgia, won the election. He defeated the incumbent president,
Gerald Ford
, who was a
Republican
.
Jimmy Carter won the election by 297 electoral votes, compared to
incumbent
president Gerald Ford, who received 240 electoral votes. A faithless elector from
Washington
voted for
Ronald Reagan
, who would win the
1980 election
.
This election followed the resignation of President
Richard Nixon
in 1974 due to the
Watergate scandal
. It is the last election to have a Democratic candidate to receive a preferable vote in the
American South
, which is typically known to be Republican; however, Florida is considered a
swing state
.
This is the last election where one of the two major candidates is still alive. Jimmy Carter is currently 99 years old, and has been the oldest living former president since
George H.W. Bush
's death in 2018.
Democratic candidates
- Jimmy Carter
, former governor of
Georgia
- Jerry Brown
, governor of
California
- George Wallace
, governor of
Alabama
- Morris Udall
, U.S. representative from
Arizona
- Henry M. Jackson
, U.S. senator from
Washington
- Frank Church
, U.S. senator from
Idaho
- Robert Byrd
, U.S. senator from
West Virginia
- Sargent Shriver
, former U.S. ambassador to
France
, from
Maryland
- Fred R. Harris
, former U.S. senator from
Oklahoma
- Birch Bayh
, U.S. senator from
Indiana
- Lloyd Bentsen
, U.S. senator from
Texas
- Terry Sanford
, former governor of
North Carolina
- Milton Shapp
, governor of
Pennsylvania
- Walter Fauntroy
, U.S. representative from
Washington, D.C.
- Ellen McCormack
, housewife
Republican candidates