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Elections in Arkansas |
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The 1976 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the wider 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose six electors to represent them in the Electoral College.
Arkansas overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic Party, former governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter and his running mate Minnesota U.S. Senator Walter Mondale with 64.94% of the vote. The Carter/Mondale ticket defeated Republican incumbent president Gerald Ford of Michigan and his running mate Kansas U.S. Senator Bob Dole in the state by a margin of 30.01%. Arkansas weighed in as nearly thirty percent more Democratic than the national average. [1]
58% of white voters supported Carter while 42% supported Ford. [2] [3]
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Searcy County and Crawford County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate. [4]
1976 United States presidential election in Arkansas [1] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Jimmy Carter | 499,614 | 64.94% | 6 | |
Republican | Gerald Ford (incumbent) | 268,753 | 34.93% | 0 | |
Write-ins | Eugene McCarthy | 647 | 0.08% | 0 | |
Write-ins | Thomas J. Anderson | 382 | 0.05% | 0 | |
Totals | 769,396 | 100.00% | 6 | ||
Voter turnout (Voting age/Registered voters) | 51%/75% |
County | Jimmy Carter Democratic | Gerald Ford Republican | Various candidates Write-ins | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Arkansas | 5,640 | 69.46% | 2,480 | 30.54% | 3,160 | 38.92% | 8,120 | ||
Ashley | 5,253 | 62.88% | 3,092 | 37.01% | 9 | 0.11% | 2,161 | 25.87% | 8,354 |
Baxter | 5,766 | 49.49% | 5,885 | 50.51% | -119 | -1.02% | 11,651 | ||
Benton | 11,289 | 47.00% | 12,670 | 52.75% | 61 | 0.25% | -1,381 | -5.75% | 24,020 |
Boone | 5,388 | 57.64% | 3,959 | 42.36% | 1,429 | 15.28% | 9,347 | ||
Bradley | 3,567 | 75.88% | 1,134 | 24.12% | 2,433 | 51.76% | 4,701 | ||
Calhoun | 2,014 | 80.11% | 495 | 19.69% | 5 | 0.20% | 1,519 | 60.42% | 2,514 |
Carroll | 3,791 | 57.01% | 2,804 | 42.17% | 55 | 0.83% | 987 | 14.84% | 6,650 |
Chicot | 3,868 | 70.39% | 1,621 | 29.50% | 6 | 0.11% | 2,247 | 40.89% | 5,495 |
Clark | 6,641 | 78.32% | 1,816 | 21.42% | 22 | 0.26% | 4,825 | 56.90% | 8,479 |
Clay | 5,664 | 74.95% | 1,893 | 25.05% | 3,771 | 49.90% | 7,557 | ||
Cleburne | 5,726 | 74.07% | 1,992 | 25.77% | 13 | 0.17% | 3,734 | 48.30% | 7,731 |
Cleveland | 2,320 | 78.22% | 646 | 21.78% | 1,674 | 56.44% | 2,966 | ||
Columbia | 4,708 | 52.31% | 4,287 | 47.63% | 6 | 0.07% | 421 | 4.68% | 9,001 |
Conway | 6,443 | 74.67% | 2,177 | 25.23% | 9 | 0.10% | 4,266 | 49.44% | 8,629 |
Craighead | 13,840 | 69.02% | 6,213 | 30.98% | 7,627 | 38.04% | 20,053 | ||
Crawford | 5,946 | 55.52% | 4,764 | 44.48% | 1,182 | 11.04% | 10,710 | ||
Crittenden | 8,249 | 61.26% | 5,202 | 38.63% | 14 | 0.10% | 3,047 | 22.63% | 13,465 |
Cross | 4,198 | 68.40% | 1,909 | 31.11% | 30 | 0.49% | 2,289 | 37.29% | 6,137 |
Dallas | 3,266 | 76.20% | 1,012 | 23.61% | 8 | 0.19% | 2,254 | 52.59% | 4,286 |
Desha | 4,228 | 75.50% | 1,372 | 24.50% | 2,856 | 51.00% | 5,600 | ||
Drew | 3,750 | 68.43% | 1,730 | 31.57% | 2,020 | 36.86% | 5,480 | ||
Faulkner | 11,423 | 74.45% | 3,904 | 25.44% | 16 | 0.10% | 7,519 | 49.01% | 15,343 |
Franklin | 3,703 | 65.24% | 1,973 | 34.76% | 1,730 | 30.48% | 5,676 | ||
Fulton | 2,670 | 71.87% | 1,038 | 27.94% | 7 | 0.19% | 1,632 | 43.93% | 3,715 |
Garland | 15,707 | 60.02% | 10,394 | 39.72% | 69 | 0.26% | 5,313 | 20.30% | 26,170 |
Grant | 3,797 | 78.39% | 1,047 | 21.61% | 2,750 | 56.78% | 4,844 | ||
Greene | 7,495 | 73.54% | 2,690 | 26.39% | 7 | 0.07% | 4,805 | 47.15% | 10,192 |
Hempstead | 5,397 | 65.37% | 2,859 | 34.63% | 2,538 | 30.74% | 8,256 | ||
Hot Spring | 7,809 | 78.12% | 2,187 | 21.88% | 5,622 | 56.24% | 9,996 | ||
Howard | 3,207 | 67.06% | 1,575 | 32.94% | 1,632 | 34.12% | 4,782 | ||
Independence | 7,116 | 71.17% | 2,878 | 28.79% | 4 | 0.04% | 4,238 | 42.38% | 9,998 |
Izard | 3,328 | 70.48% | 1,394 | 29.52% | 1,934 | 40.96% | 4,722 | ||
Jackson | 6,456 | 78.36% | 1,783 | 21.64% | 4,673 | 56.72% | 8,239 | ||
Jefferson | 21,001 | 72.33% | 8,034 | 27.67% | 12,967 | 44.66% | 29,035 | ||
Johnson | 5,044 | 69.89% | 2,173 | 30.11% | 2,871 | 39.78% | 7,217 | ||
Lafayette | 2,342 | 61.49% | 1,467 | 38.51% | 875 | 22.98% | 3,809 | ||
Lawrence | 5,167 | 75.08% | 1,708 | 24.82% | 7 | 0.10% | 3,459 | 50.26% | 6,882 |
Lee | 3,463 | 68.74% | 1,574 | 31.24% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,889 | 37.50% | 5,038 |
Lincoln | 3,045 | 81.33% | 699 | 18.67% | 2,346 | 62.66% | 3,744 | ||
Little River | 3,142 | 68.71% | 1,431 | 31.29% | 1,711 | 37.42% | 4,573 | ||
Logan | 5,313 | 64.06% | 2,909 | 35.07% | 72 | 0.87% | 2,404 | 28.99% | 8,294 |
Lonoke | 7,761 | 75.36% | 2,522 | 24.49% | 16 | 0.16% | 5,239 | 50.87% | 10,299 |
Madison | 2,926 | 53.91% | 2,502 | 46.09% | 424 | 7.82% | 5,428 | ||
Marion | 2,979 | 59.30% | 2,045 | 40.70% | 934 | 18.60% | 5,024 | ||
Miller | 6,648 | 58.58% | 4,679 | 41.23% | 22 | 0.19% | 1,969 | 17.35% | 11,349 |
Mississippi | 10,292 | 63.03% | 6,009 | 36.80% | 27 | 0.17% | 4,283 | 26.23% | 16,328 |
Monroe | 3,556 | 73.35% | 1,285 | 26.51% | 7 | 0.14% | 2,271 | 46.84% | 4,848 |
Montgomery | 2,420 | 72.37% | 924 | 27.63% | 1,496 | 44.74% | 3,344 | ||
Nevada | 3,101 | 72.64% | 1,163 | 27.24% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,938 | 45.40% | 4,269 |
Newton | 1,840 | 53.32% | 1,611 | 46.68% | 229 | 6.64% | 3,451 | ||
Ouachita | 8,946 | 76.47% | 2,753 | 23.53% | 6,193 | 52.94% | 11,699 | ||
Perry | 2,310 | 73.52% | 832 | 26.48% | 1,478 | 47.04% | 3,142 | ||
Phillips | 7,774 | 69.93% | 3,342 | 30.06% | 1 | 0.01% | 4,432 | 39.87% | 11,117 |
Pike | 2,822 | 69.40% | 1,234 | 30.35% | 10 | 0.25% | 1,588 | 39.05% | 4,066 |
Poinsett | 6,835 | 71.45% | 2,726 | 28.50% | 5 | 0.05% | 4,109 | 42.95% | 9,566 |
Polk | 3,505 | 58.75% | 2,432 | 40.76% | 29 | 0.49% | 1,073 | 17.99% | 5,966 |
Pope | 8,355 | 65.62% | 4,348 | 34.15% | 29 | 0.23% | 4,007 | 31.47% | 12,732 |
Prairie | 2,836 | 77.72% | 813 | 22.28% | 2,023 | 55.44% | 3,649 | ||
Pulaski | 63,541 | 62.62% | 37,690 | 37.14% | 244 | 0.24% | 25,851 | 25.48% | 101,475 |
Randolph | 4,551 | 74.34% | 1,571 | 25.66% | 2,980 | 48.68% | 6,122 | ||
St. Francis | 6,851 | 65.12% | 3,639 | 34.59% | 30 | 0.29% | 3,212 | 30.53% | 10,520 |
Saline | 12,008 | 74.41% | 4,123 | 25.55% | 7 | 0.04% | 7,885 | 48.86% | 16,138 |
Scott | 2,880 | 66.79% | 1,427 | 33.09% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,453 | 33.70% | 4,312 |
Searcy | 3,180 | 54.09% | 2,699 | 45.91% | 481 | 8.18% | 5,879 | ||
Sebastian | 15,768 | 47.11% | 17,671 | 52.79% | 34 | 0.10% | -1,903 | -5.68% | 33,473 |
Sevier | 3,391 | 69.53% | 1,468 | 30.10% | 18 | 0.37% | 1,923 | 39.43% | 4,877 |
Sharp | 3,532 | 62.15% | 2,151 | 37.85% | 1,381 | 24.30% | 5,683 | ||
Stone | 2,718 | 72.54% | 1,014 | 27.06% | 15 | 0.40% | 1,704 | 45.48% | 3,747 |
Union | 8,257 | 51.03% | 7,918 | 48.93% | 7 | 0.04% | 339 | 2.10% | 16,182 |
Van Buren | 4,004 | 71.14% | 1,624 | 28.86% | 2,380 | 42.28% | 5,628 | ||
Washington | 15,610 | 52.32% | 14,132 | 47.37% | 92 | 0.31% | 1,478 | 4.95% | 29,834 |
White | 11,412 | 70.58% | 4,756 | 29.42% | 6,656 | 41.16% | 16,168 | ||
Woodruff | 3,040 | 78.09% | 848 | 21.78% | 5 | 0.13% | 2,192 | 56.31% | 3,893 |
Yell | 5,785 | 74.96% | 1,932 | 25.04% | 3,853 | 49.92% | 7,717 | ||
Totals | 499,614 | 64.94% | 268,753 | 34.93% | 1,029 | 0.13% | 230,861 | 30.01% | 769,396 |
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