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| United States presidential election, 1976 | ||||
| 2 November 1976 | ||||
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| Nominee | Jimmy Carter | Gerald Ford | ||
| Party | Democratic | Republican | ||
| Home state | Georgia | Michigan | ||
| Running mate | Walter Mondale | Bob Dole | ||
| Electoral vote | 297 | 240 | ||
| States carried | 23+DC | 27 | ||
| Popular vote | 40,831,881 | 39,148,634 | ||
| Percentage | 50. The United States presidential election of 1972 was waged on the issues of radicalism and the Vietnam War. The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent Ronald Reagan Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 Year 1976 ( MCMLXXVI) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22 1923 is an attorney and retired United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996 serving part of that time Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D 1% | 48. 0% | ||
 Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Carter/Mondale, Red denotes those won by Ford/Dole. Pink is the electoral vote for "Ronald Reagan" by a Washington "faithless elector". Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. Faithless electors are members of the Electoral College who do not cast their electoral votes for the people they have pledged to vote for Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state. | ||||
The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's It pitted incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President A governor is a governing official usually the executive (at least nominally to different degrees also politically and administratively of a non-sovereign level of government The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid a political price for his pardon of Nixon. An economy is the realized social system of production exchange distribution and consumption of goods and services of a country or other area A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it Carter ran as a Washington "outsider" and reformer and won a narrow victory. Reform Movement redirects here For specific organizations by that name see Reform Movement (disambiguation A reform movement is a kind He was the first presidential candidate elected directly from the Deep South since 1848. The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. The United States presidential election of 1848 was an open race Eugene McCarthy ran as an independent candidate. Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy ( March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American Politician, Poet, and a
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Nominations
Democratic Party nomination
Due to the absence of any clear front-runner for the nomination, a record number of Democrats competed for their party's presidential nomination in 1976. Due to the absence of any clear front-runner for the nomination a record number of Democrats competed for their party's presidential nomination in 1976
The 1976 campaign featured a record number of state primaries and caucuses. However, most of the Democratic candidates failed to realize the significance of the increased number of primaries, or the importance of creating momentum by winning the early contests. The one candidate who did see the opportunities in the new nominating system was Jimmy Carter, a former state senator and governor of Georgia. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 The Georgia State Senate is the Upper house of the Georgia General Assembly (the state Legislature of Georgia) Colonial governors James Oglethorpe, Resident Trustee, 1733 - 1743 ( Oglethorpe County) William Stephens, The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule Carter, who was relatively unknown outside of Georgia when the campaign began, realized that his "fresh face" could be an asset following the Watergate scandal and the public's subsequent disenchantment with Washington politicians.
Carter surprised most political pundits by finishing second in the Iowa caucus behind "Uncommitted", and then by winning the New Hampshire primary, thus proving that a Southerner could win Northern states. He then eliminated his rivals one by one. In North Carolina he crushed George Wallace, his chief rival for Southern delegates. George Corley Wallace Jr (August 25 1919 September 13 1998 was a Democratic Governor of Alabama for four terms (1963-1967 1971-1979 and 1983-1987 and ran for He defeated Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson in the Pennsylvania primary, thus knocking him out of the race. In Wisconsin, Carter scored an impressive come-from-behind win over liberal Arizona Congressman Morris Udall, thus eliminating Udall as a serious contender. Morris King "Mo" Udall ( June 15, 1922 &ndash December 12, 1998) was an American politician who served as a U As Carter closed in on the nomination, an "ABC" (Anybody But Carter) movement started among Northern and Western Democrats who feared that Carter might be too conservative for the party. The leaders of this movement were Idaho Senator Frank Church and California Governor Jerry Brown. For his son Frank Forrester Church IV the Unitarian Universalist minister and theologian see Forrest Church. Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown Jr (born April 7, 1938) is the current Attorney General and former governor of the State of They entered several Western primaries and defeated Carter, but their candidacies started too late to prevent Carter from winning the nomination. They eventually supported Carter in the general election.
By the time the Democratic Convention opened in New York City, Carter already had more than enough delegates to win the nomination, and so the major emphasis at the convention was to create an appearance of party unity, which had been lacking in the 1968 and 1972 Democratic Conventions. The City of New York Carter easily won the nomination on the first ballot; he then chose Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota, a liberal and a protege of Hubert Humphrey, as his running mate. Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party
Republican Party nomination
The contest for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between just two candidates: Gerald Ford, the incumbent President of the United States; and Ronald Reagan, the popular leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term governor of California. Candidates Potential candidates who did not run Before President Richard Nixon 's resignation and elevation of Gerald Ford to the Presidency Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. The conservatives faulted Ford for the loss of South Vietnam to the Communists, his negotiations to hand over the Panama Canal to Panama, and for what they perceived as his failure to more aggressively confront the Soviet Union in the Cold War. "RVN" redirects here RVN is also the former callsign of a TV station in Wagga Wagga New South Wales Australia The Panama Canal is a man-made Canal in Panama which joins the The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR was a constitutionally Socialist state that existed in Eurasia from 1922 to 1991 Cold War is the state of conflict tension and competition that existed between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR and their respective allies from the Since Ford had not won a national election as either Vice-President or President, he was viewed by many political experts as being unusually vulnerable for an incumbent President, and as not having a strong nationwide base of support. As such, many conservative Republicans believed that Reagan could beat him for the nomination.
Defying expectations, however, Ford narrowly defeated Reagan in the New Hampshire primary, and then proceeded to beat Reagan in the Florida and Illinois primaries by comfortable margins. The New Hampshire primary is the first in a series of nationwide Political party Primary elections held in the United States every four years as part of At this point Reagan's campaign ran low on money, and many pundits believed that another loss would force him to quit the race. However, Reagan upset Ford in North Carolina, and then proceeded to win a string of impressive victories, including Texas. From there the two men engaged in an increasingly bitter, nip-and-tuck battle for delegates. By the time the Republican Convention opened in August 1976, the race for the nomination was still too close to call.
The 1976 Republican National Convention was held in Kansas City. The 1976 National Convention of the Republican Party of the United States met at Kemper Arena in Kansas City, Missouri, from Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages As the convention began Ford was seen as having a slight lead in delegate votes, but still shy of the 1130 delegates he needed to win. In a bid to woo moderate Northern Republicans, Reagan shocked the convention by announcing that if he won the nomination, Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania, a liberal, would be his running mate. Richard Schultz Schweiker (born June 1 1926) is a former US Congressman and Senator representing the state of Pennsylvania The move backfired, however, as few moderates switched to Reagan, while many conservative delegates were outraged. Ford defeated Reagan by a narrow margin on the first ballot.
Ford chose Senator Robert Dole of Kansas as his running mate. Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22 1923 is an attorney and retired United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996 serving part of that time Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " After giving his acceptance speech, President Ford asked Reagan to come and say a few words to the convention; Reagan proceeded to give an eloquent address which virtually overshadowed Ford's speech.
General election
The Fall Campaign
Jimmy Carter ran as an honest reformer who was "untainted" by Washington political scandals, which many voters found attractive in the wake of the Watergate Scandal, which had led to President Richard Nixon's resignation. The Watergate scandals were a series of Political scandals during the presidency of Richard Nixon that resulted in the Indictment of several of Nixon's President Ford, although personally unconnected with Watergate, was seen by many as too close to the discredited Nixon administration, especially after Ford granted Nixon a presidential pardon for any crimes he may have committed during his term of office. A pardon is the forgiveness of a crime and the penalty associated with it
When Carter left the Democratic National Convention, he held a huge 33-point lead over Ford in the polls. However, as the campaign continued the race tightened, and by election day the polls showed the race as too close to call. Carter's decline in the polls, and Ford's surge, is usually credited to three events. First, Carter promised a "blanket pardon" to Vietnam War draft dodgers in a speech before the American Legion, an act which angered many conservatives who viewed the draft dodgers as traitors. A draft dodger, draft evader or draft resister, is a person who avoids ("dodges" or otherwise violates the Conscription policies of the For other uses of American Legion see American Legion (disambiguation The American Legion was chartered by the U Second, Playboy magazine published a controversial interview with Carter; in the interview Carter admitted to having "lusted in his heart" for women other than his wife, which cut into his support among women and evangelical Christians. Playboy is an American Men's magazine, founded in Chicago Illinois, by Hugh Hefner and his associates which has grown into Playboy Finally, on September 24, Ford performed well in what was the first televised presidential debate since 1960. Events 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina. During presidential elections in the United States, it has become customary for the main candidates The United States presidential election of 1960 marked the end of Dwight D Polls taken after the debate showed that most viewers felt that Ford was the winner. Carter was also hurt by Ford's charges that he lacked the necessary experience to be an effective national leader, and that Carter was vague on many issues.
However, Ford also committed a costly blunder in the campaign that halted his momentum. During the second presidential debate on October 6, Ford stumbled when he asserted that "there is no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe and there never will be under a Ford administration. Events 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus A soviet (сове́т, "council" originally was a workers' local council in late Imperial Russia. Eastern Europe is a general term that refers to the Geopolitical region encompassing the easternmost part of the European continent. " He added that he did not "believe that the Poles consider themselves dominated by the Soviet Union", and made the same claim with regards to Yugoslavia and Romania. [1] Ford compounded his error by refusing to retract his statement for almost a week after the debate. Conservatives who had been lukewarm to Ford's candidacy were particularly appalled, as Ford's insistence that Eastern Europe was not under Soviet control was baffling. As a result of this blunder, Ford's surge stalled and Carter was able to maintain a slight lead in the polls.
A vice presidential debate between Robert Dole and Walter Mondale also hurt the Republican ticket when Dole asserted that military unpreparedness on the part of Democratic presidents was responsible for all of the wars the U. S. had fought in the twentieth century. Dole, a World War II veteran, noted that in every twentieth-century war from World War I to the Vietnam War, a Democrat had been President. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including World War I (abbreviated WWI; also known as the First World War, the Great War, and the War to End All The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, or the Vietnam Conflict, occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia Dole then pointed out that the number of U. S. casualties in "Democrat wars" was roughly equal to the population of Detroit. One factor which did help Ford in the closing days of the campaign was a series of television appearances he did with Joe Garagiola, Sr., a retired baseball star for the St. Louis Cardinals and a well-known announcer for NBC Sports. For this person's son the baseball executive see Joe Garagiola Jr The St Louis Cardinals (also referred to as "the Cards " or "the Redbirds " are a professional Baseball team based in St NBC Sports is the brand used for sports programming on NBC, responsible for the televising of many Sports events on the network Garagiola and Ford appeared in a number of shows in several large cities. During the show Garagiola would ask Ford questions about his life and beliefs; the shows were so informal, relaxed, and laid-back that some television critics labeled them the "Joe and Jerry Show".
Despite these Republican missteps, Ford managed to close the remaining gap in the polls and by election day the race was judged to be even. Election day was November 2, and it took most of that night and the following morning to determine the winner. Events 1570 - A Tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1000 It wasn't until 3:30 am (EST), that the NBC television network was able to pronounce that Carter had carried Mississippi, and had thus accumulated more than the 270 electoral votes needed to win (seconds later, ABC News declared Carter the winner based on projections for Carter of Wisconsin and Hawaii; CBS News announced Carter's victory at 3:45 am). Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States [1] Carter defeated Ford by two percentage points in the national popular vote. The electoral vote was the closest since 1916; Carter took 23 states with 297 electoral votes, while Ford won 27 states and 240 electoral votes (one elector from Washington state, pledged to Ford, voted for Reagan). Carter's victory came primarily from his near-sweep of the South (he lost only Virginia), and his close victories in large Northern states such as New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio. Ford did well in the West, carrying every state except Hawaii.
Carter was the first Democrat since John F. Kennedy in 1960 to carry the states of the Deep South, and the first since Lyndon Johnson in 1964 to carry an unquestionable majority of southern states. The United States presidential election of 1960 marked the end of Dwight D The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the American South. Please DO NOT flip the colors -->The United States presidential election of 1964 was one of the most lopsided presidential elections in the history of the United States The Southern United States &mdashcommonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South &mdashconstitutes a large distinctive
Had Ford won the election, the provisions of the 22nd amendment would have disqualified him from running in 1980, because he had served more than two years of Nixon's remaining term. The Twenty-second Amendment ( Amendment XXII) of the United States Constitution sets a Term limit for the President of the United States. The United States presidential election of 1980 featured a contest between incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter and his Republican opponent Ronald Reagan
The 1976 election was only the second time since 1944 that a Democrat managed to obtain a majority of the popular vote in a Presidential Election, as Carter received 50. 1% of the vote. This has not happened again for a Democrat since. Carter is just one of four Democrats to gain a majority of the popular vote since the Civil War, with the others being Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, & Samuel Tilden. Tilden, although winning the popular vote, was declared to have lost the electoral college vote to Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876 as part of a political deal with Southern Democrats to end Reconstruction.
Results
| Presidential Candidate | Party | Home State | Popular Vote | Electoral Vote | Running Mate | Running Mate's Home State | RM's Electoral Vote | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Pct | |||||||
| James Earl Carter, Jr. | Democratic | Georgia | 40,831,881 | 50. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 The Democratic Party is one of two major Political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule 1% | 297 | Walter Frederick Mondale | Minnesota | 297 |
| Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr. | Republican | Michigan | 39,148,634 | 48. Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale (born January 5, 1928) is an American politician and member of the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President Michigan ( is a Midwestern state of the United States of America. 0% | 240 | Robert Joseph Dole | Kansas | 241 |
| Ronald Wilson Reagan | Republican | California | —(a) | —(a) | 1 | |||
| Eugene McCarthy | (none) | Minnesota | 740,460 | 0. Robert Joseph "Bob" Dole (born July 22 1923 is an attorney and retired United States Senator from Kansas from 1969–1996 serving part of that time Kansas ( is a Midwestern state in the central region of the United States of America, an area often referred to as the American " California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy ( March 29, 1916 – December 10, 2005) was an American Politician, Poet, and a Minnesota ( Native Americans demonstrated the name to early settlers 9% | 0 | (b) | (b) | 0 |
| Roger MacBride | Libertarian | Vermont | 172,553 | 0. Roger Lea MacBride ( 6 August 1929 - 5 March 1995) was a US lawyer Political figure, and Television producer The Libertarian Party is a United States political party founded on December 11 1971 Vermont ( is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. 2% | 0 | David Bergland | California | 0 |
| Lester Maddox | American Independent | Georgia | 170,274 | 0. David P Bergland received the United States Libertarian Party 's nomination for the 1984 presidential election. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. Lester Garfield Maddox ( September 30, 1915 – June 25, 2003) was an American Democratic Party politician who was The American Independent Party is a California Political party. The State of Georgia ( is a state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against British rule 2% | 0 | William D. Dyke | Wisconsin | 0 |
| Thomas J. Anderson | American | (c) | 158,271 | 0. William D Dyke was a two-termed Mayor of Madison Wisconsin in the 1970s Wisconsin ( or wɪˈskɑnsɨn (French Ouisconsin) is one of the fifty United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States Thomas Jefferson Anderson ( November 10, 1910 - August 30 2002) was a conservative author farmer and candidate for the U The American Party is a conservative party in the United States. 2% | 0 | Rufus Shackelford | 0 | |
| Peter Camejo | Socialist Workers | 90,986 | 0. Peter Miguel Camejo ( December 31, 1939, New York City – September 13, 2008, Folsom California) was an American The Socialist Workers Party, or SWP, is a Communist Political party in the United States. 1% | 0 | Willie Mae Reid | 0 | ||
| Other | 218,525 | 0. Willie Mae Reid is an American politician who ran as the Socialist Workers Party candidate for Mayor of Chicago in 1975 3% | – | Other | – | |||
| Total | 81,531,584 | 100 % | 538 | 538 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. 1976 Presidential Election Results. Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections (August 7, 2005). Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
Source (Electoral Vote): Electoral College Box Scores 1789–1996. Official website of the National Archives. (August 7, 2005). Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
(a) Mike Padden, a Republican faithless elector from Washington, gave Ronald Reagan one electoral vote. Mike Padden is a Lawyer, former member of the Washington State Legislature, and a current District court judge residing in Spokane Washington Faithless electors are members of the Electoral College who do not cast their electoral votes for the people they have pledged to vote for Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.
(b) The running mate of McCarthy varied from state to state, possibly in an effort to attract local voters similar to that tried by the Whigs in 1836, but this reasoning is an unverified theory. The Whig Party was a Political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. The United States presidential election of 1836 is predominantly remembered for three reasons It was the last election until 1988 to result in the elevation
(c) Research has not yet determined whether Anderson's home state was Tennessee or Texas at the time of the 1976 election. Tennessee ( is a state located in the Southern United States. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State.
Close states
- Oregon, 0. 2%
- Ohio, 0. 2%
- Maine, 0. 8%
- Iowa, 1. 0%
- Virginia, 1. 3%
- Oklahoma, 1. 3%
- South Dakota, 1. 5
- Wisconsin, 1. 7%
- California, 1. 7%
- Mississippi, 1. 9%
- Illinois, 2. 0%
- New Jersey, 2. 2%
- New Mexico, 2. 4%
- Hawaii, 2. 5%
- Pennsylvania, 2. 7%
- Texas, 2. 9%
- Missouri, 3. 6%
- Washington, 3. 9%
- Nevada, 4. 4%
- New York, 4. 4%
- Connecticut, 5. 2%
- Florida, 5. 3%
- Michigan, 5. 4%
- Delaware, 5. 4%
- Louisiana, 5. 7%
- North Dakota, 5. 9%
- Maryland, 6. 0%
- Kentucky, 7. 2%
- Montana, 7. 4%
- Kansas, 7. 6%
- Indiana, 7. 6%
Voter demographics
| SOCIAL GROUPS AND THE PRESIDENTIAL VOTE, 1980 AND 1976 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Size(a) | '80 Carter | '80 Reagan | '80 Anderson | '76 Carter | '76 Ford | |
| Party | ||||||
| Democratic | 43 | 66 | 26 | 6 | 77 | 22 |
| Independent | 23 | 30 | 54 | 12 | 43 | 54 |
| Republican | 28 | 11 | 84 | 4 | 9 | 90 |
| Ideology | ||||||
| Liberal | 18 | 57 | 27 | 11 | 70 | 26 |
| Moderate | 51 | 42 | 48 | 8 | 51 | 48 |
| Conservative | 31 | 23 | 71 | 4 | 29 | 70 |
| Race | ||||||
| Black | 10 | 82 | 14 | 3 | 82 | 16 |
| Hispanic | 2 | 54 | 36 | 7 | 75 | 24 |
| White | 88 | 36 | 55 | 8 | 47 | 52 |
| Sex | ||||||
| Female | 48 | 45 | 46 | 7 | 50 | 48 |
| Male | 52 | 37 | 54 | 7 | 50 | 48 |
| Religion | ||||||
| Protestant | 46 | 37 | 56 | 6 | 44 | 55 |
| White Protestant | 41 | 31 | 62 | 6 | 43 | 57 |
| Catholic | 25 | 40 | 51 | 7 | 54 | 44 |
| Jewish | 5 | 45 | 39 | 14 | 64 | 34 |
| Family Income | ||||||
| Less than $10,000 | 13 | 50 | 41 | 6 | 58 | 40 |
| $10,000–$14,999 | 15 | 47 | 42 | 8 | 55 | 43 |
| $15,000–$24,999 | 29 | 38 | 53 | 7 | 48 | 50 |
| $25,000–$50,000 | 24 | 32 | 58 | 8 | 36 | 62 |
| Over $50,000 | 5 | 25 | 65 | 8 | — | — |
| Occupation | ||||||
| Professional or manager | 39 | 33 | 56 | 9 | 41 | 57 |
| Clerical, sales, white collar | 11 | 42 | 48 | 8 | 46 | 53 |
| Blue-collar | 17 | 46 | 47 | 5 | 57 | 41 |
| Agriculture | 3 | 29 | 66 | 3 | — | — |
| Unemployed | 3 | 55 | 35 | 7 | 65 | 34 |
| Education | ||||||
| Less than high school | 11 | 50 | 45 | 3 | 58 | 41 |
| High school graduate | 28 | 43 | 51 | 4 | 54 | 46 |
| Some college | 28 | 35 | 55 | 8 | 51 | 49 |
| College graduate | 27 | 35 | 51 | 11 | 45 | 55 |
| Union Membership | ||||||
| Labor union household | 28 | 47 | 44 | 7 | 59 | 39 |
| No member of household in union | 62 | 35 | 55 | 8 | 43 | 55 |
| Age | ||||||
| 18–21 years old | 6 | 44 | 43 | 11 | 48 | 50 |
| 22–29 years old | 17 | 43 | 43 | 11 | 51 | 46 |
| 30–44 years old | 31 | 37 | 54 | 7 | 49 | 49 |
| 45–59 years old | 23 | 39 | 55 | 6 | 47 | 52 |
| 60 years or older | 18 | 40 | 54 | 4 | 47 | 52 |
| Region | ||||||
| East | 25 | 42 | 47 | 9 | 51 | 47 |
| South | 27 | 44 | 51 | 3 | 54 | 45 |
| White South | 22 | 35 | 60 | 3 | 46 | 52 |
| Midwest | 27 | 40 | 51 | 7 | 48 | 50 |
| Far West | 19 | 35 | 53 | 9 | 46 | 51 |
| Community Size | ||||||
| City over 250,000 | 18 | 54 | 35 | 8 | 60 | 40 |
| Suburb/small city | 53 | 37 | 53 | 8 | 53 | 47 |
| Rural/town | 29 | 39 | 54 | 5 | 47 | 53 |
Source: CBS News/ New York Times interviews with 12,782 voters as they left the polls, as reported in the New York Times, November 9, 1980, p. Events 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims sentencing all Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar) 28, and in further analysis. The 1976 data are from CBS News interviews.
(a) “Size” = share of 1980 national total
Miscellany
- The 1976 election was the first presidential election since 1932 which resulted in an incumbent President being defeated for re-election as a major party candidate. The United States presidential election of 1932 took place as the effects of the 1929 Stock Market Crash and the Great Depression were being felt intensely across the country Four years later, in 1980, this event would occur again when Ronald Reagan would defeat President Carter in the general election and again, in 1992, when Bill Clinton defeated incumbent George H.W. Bush in his bid for re-election. The President of the United States is the Head of state and Head of government of the United States and is the highest political official in United States by William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993
- This was the last time that a Democratic candidate carried any of the following states: Texas, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama. Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. South Carolina ( is a state in the southern region ( Deep South) of the United States of America. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Mississippi ( is a state located in the Deep South of the United States Alabama (formally the State of Alabama;) is a State located in the southern region of the United States of America.
- This was also the last time that the Democratic candidate won a majority, as opposed to a plurality, of the Southern vote: in the South, Carter won 10,482,868 votes to Ford's 8,724,164 votes. [2]
- 1976 marked the first year that a television news network used colors to represent the states won by the candidates. John Chancellor, the anchorman for the NBC Nightly News, suggested to his network's engineers that they create a large electronic map of the United States; the map was placed in the network's election-night news studio. John William Chancellor ( July 14, 1927 &ndash July 12, 1996) was a well-known American Journalist, who spent most of his NBC Nightly News is the flagship evening news program for NBC News and broadcasts from the GE Building, Rockefeller Center in New York City. If Carter carried a state it would light up in red, if Ford won a state it would light up in blue. The feature proved to be so popular that all three major news networks would adopt the feature for the 1980 presidential election, and it has since become a staple of election-night broadcasts, although the colors for both parties have been reversed.
- This was the first time since 1908, and last time to date, that Nevada did not back the winning candidate. The United States presidential election of 1908 was held on November 3 1908 Nevada ( is a state located in the western region of the United States of America.
- Although he lost, Ford carried 27 out of 50 states, the most ever won by a losing candidate.
See also
References
- ^ Jules Witcover. The history of the United States from 1964 through 1980 includes the continuation of the African American Civil Rights Movement; the Vietnam War and protests against The United States Senate election 1976 was an election for the United States Senate that coincided with Democratic Jimmy Carter 's election Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency, 1972-1976 (New York: Viking), p. 11.
- ^ 1976 Presidential General Election Results - Virginia
External links
- 1976 popular vote by counties
- 1976 popular vote by states (with bar graphs)
- How close was the 1976 election? - Michael Sheppard, Michigan State University
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