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United States presidential election, 1976

Election NameUnited States presidential election, 1976
CountryUnited States
Typepresidential
Ongoingno
Previous ElectionUnited States presidential election, 1972
Previous Year1972
Next ElectionUnited States presidential election, 1980
Next Year1980
Election DateNovember 2, 1976
Nominee1Jimmy Carter
Party1Democratic Party (United States)
Home State1Georgia
Running Mate1Walter Mondale
Electoral Vote1297
States Carried123 + DC
Popular Vote140,831,881
Percentage150.1%
Nominee2Gerald Ford
Party2Republican Party (United States)
Home State2Michigan
Running Mate2Bob Dole
Electoral Vote2240
States Carried227
Popular Vote239,148,634
Percentage248.0%
Map ImageElectoralCollege1976.svg
Map Size350px
Map CaptionPresidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Carter/Mondale, Red denotes those won by Ford/Dole. Ronald Reagan received one electoral vote from a "faithless elector" in Washington. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
TitlePresident
Before ElectionGerald Ford
Before PartyRepublican Party (United States)
After ElectionJimmy Carter
After PartyDemocratic Party (United States)

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The United States presidential election of 1976 followed the resignation of President Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal. It pitted incumbent President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate. Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid a political price for his pardon of Nixon. Carter ran as a Washington outsider and reformer and won a narrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South since Zachary Taylor in 1848.

No post-1976 Democratic candidate has managed to match or better Carter's electoral performance in the American South.

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Statistics : Voter demographics
Social groups and the presidential vote, 1980 and 1976
Size '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
Ethnicity
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 US$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

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FamilyRosalyn Carter (wife) * Jack Carter (son) * Amy Carter (daughter) * Lillian Gordy Carter (mother)
BooksList of books
Awards and honorsNobel Peace Prize * Presidential Medal of Freedom * Freedom of the City * Silver Buffalo Award * Philadelphia Liberty Medal * United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights * Hoover Medal * Christopher Award * Grammy Award



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