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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.
Carter's sole county win in 1976 would swing so dramatically as to be one of only 3 of the state's 10 counties to give Reagan more than 60% of the vote in 1980, as Reagan received 60.08% of the vote in Coös County. Reagan's decisive victory in New Hampshire would make the state 7% more Republican than the national average in the 1980 election.
58% of white voters supported Carter while 42% supported Ford. [2] [3] As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Searcy County and Crawford County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [4]
Jimmy Carter's absentee ballot was dropped off at a county courthouse near his Georgia hometown this week, which means his vote is on its way to getting locked in.. As his son Chip and grandson ...
The 4th district is located in East Tennessee and consists of all of Unicoi County and part of Carter County. It includes the cities of Elizabethton and Erwin. Since 2015, the district has been represented by incumbent Republican John Holsclaw Jr., who chose to retire rather than seek re-election.
Cities in the top 100 with mayoral elections. Click on the city names to go to that city's election page. Blue pins denote Partisan or Nonpartisan Democratic incumbents, red pins Partisan or Nonpartisan Republican, and white pins independents. Smaller cities will be included elsewhere in the page.
Notable examples are Jefferson County in Washington State, Lane County, Oregon, Marin and Santa Cruz Counties in California, McKinley County, New Mexico, and Rock Island County, Illinois. [148] Survey research and post-election polling indicated that the landslide result had been more a repudiation of Carter than an embrace of Reagan.
Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic gain: Popular vote margin: Democratic +2.1%: Electoral vote: 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 ...