1976 United States presidential election in Maryland

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1976 United States presidential election in Maryland
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All 10 Maryland electoral votes to the Electoral College
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Nominee Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Georgia Michigan
Running mate Walter Mondale Bob Dole
Electoral vote100
Popular vote759,612672,661
Percentage53.04%46.96%
Maryland Presidential Election Results 1976.svg
County Results
President before election

Gerald Ford
Republican

Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

The 1976 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on November 2, 1976 as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford of Michigan and his running mate Senator Bob Dole of Kansas lost to the Democratic challengers, Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia and Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Carter and Mondale won Maryland with 53.04% of the vote compared to Ford and Dole’s 46.96% – a comfortable margin of 6.08%.

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After Nixon had won every county-equivalent in the state except for Baltimore City in 1972, Carter won ten of the state's 23 counties, most critically the populous Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in the Washington metropolitan area, and won Baltimore City by almost 100,000 raw votes. Carter began a Democratic winning streak in Prince George's County that continues to this day. [1]

As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which a Democrat carried Allegany, Calvert, Cecil, and St. Mary’s Counties. [2]

In this election, Maryland voted 4.01% more Democratic than the nation at-large. [3]

Results

1976 United States presidential election in Maryland [4]
PartyCandidateRunning mateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Democratic Jimmy Carter Walter Mondale 759,61253.04%10
Republican Gerald Ford (incumbent) Bob Dole 672,66146.96%0

Results by county

CountyJimmy Carter
Democratic		Gerald Ford
Republican		MarginTotal votes cast [5]
# %# %# %
Allegany 15,96750.85%15,43549.15%5321.70%31,402
Anne Arundel 54,35146.97%61,35353.03%-7,002-6.06%115,704
Baltimore 118,50545.27%143,29354.73%-24,788-9.46%261,798
Baltimore City 178,59368.60%81,76231.40%96,83137.20%260,355
Calvert 4,62657.36%3,43942.64%1,18714.72%8,065
Caroline 3,01749.21%3,11450.79%-97-1.58%6,131
Carroll 9,94038.83%15,66161.17%-5,721-22.34%25,601
Cecil 8,95053.33%7,83346.67%1,1176.66%16,783
Charles 9,52555.00%7,79245.00%1,73310.00%17,317
Dorchester 4,52848.71%4,76851.29%-240-2.58%9,296
Frederick 14,54244.77%17,94155.23%-3,399-10.46%32,483
Garrett 3,33241.80%4,64058.20%-1,308-16.40%7,972
Harford 19,89045.00%24,30955.00%-4,419-10.00%44,199
Howard 20,53349.20%21,20050.80%-667-1.60%41,733
Kent 3,21153.23%2,82146.77%3906.46%6,032
Montgomery 131,09851.66%122,67448.34%8,4243.32%253,772
Prince George's 111,74357.97%81,02742.03%30,71615.94%192,770
Queen Anne's 3,45749.84%3,47950.16%-22-0.32%6,936
Somerset 3,47251.62%3,25448.38%2183.24%6,726
St. Mary's 7,22756.17%5,64043.83%1,58712.34%12,867
Talbot 3,71538.85%5,84861.15%-2,133-22.30%9,563
Washington 15,90244.05%20,19455.95%-4,292-11.90%36,096
Wicomico 9,41247.18%10,53752.82%-1,125-5.64%19,949
Worcester 4,07646.73%4,64753.27%-571-6.54%8,723
Totals759,61253.04%672,66146.96%86,9516.08%1,432,273

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Maryland by County
  2. ↑ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. ↑ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
  4. ↑ "1976 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland" . Retrieved September 18, 2015.
  5. ↑ Maryland State Board of Elections, ‘For President of the United States’ Maryland General Election Returns – November 2, 1976 (Annapolis, 1976)
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