United States presidential election, 1976 facts for kids
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Presidential election results map. Blue denotes those won by Carter/Mondale, Red denotes states won by Ford/Dole. Pink denotes won by Ronald Reagan by a Washington faithless elector. Numbers indicate the number of electoral votes allotted to each state.
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This election was between former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter and President Gerald Ford.
Jimmy Carter won the election by 297 electoral votes. Incumbent president Gerald Ford got 240 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 get a good vote in American South. The American South is most known to be Republican.
This is the last election where one of the two major candidates is still alive. Jimmy Carter is currently 92 years old.
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Candidates
Democratic Party
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
Candidates gallery
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Former Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia
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Representative Morris Udall of Arizona
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Senator Henry M. Jackson of Washington
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Senator Frank Church of Idaho
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Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia
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Former Ambassador to France Sargent Shriver of Maryland
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Former Senator Fred Harris of Oklahoma
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Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana
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Senator Lloyd Bentsen of Texas
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Former Governor Terry Sanford of North Carolina
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Delegate Walter Fauntroy of Washington, D.C.
Republican Party
Republican candidates
- Gerald Ford, President of the United States from Michigan
- Ronald Reagan, former governor of California
Candidates gallery
Images for kids
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The 1976 Republican National Convention at Kemper Arena in Kansas City. Vice Presidential nominee Bob Dole is on the far left, then Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan is at the center shaking hands with President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller is just to the right of Ford, followed by Susan Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
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Roger MacBride
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Carter and Ford in debate
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Carter campaign headquarters
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1976 Presidential Election in the United States, Results by Congressional District
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Gerald Ford (right) watching election returns with Joe Garagiola on election night in 1976. Garagiola is reacting to television reports that Ford had just lost Texas to Carter.
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A campaign button from election night where Carter and Mondale spent the evening in Flint Michigan at a rally It is notable as only a handful of counties in Michigan went to Carter in 1976, and no surrounding counties where Carter held the rally went to him.
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A Ford-Dole campaign button.
See also
In Spanish: Elecciones presidenciales de Estados Unidos de 1976 para niños
