1976 United States presidential election in Utah

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1976 United States presidential election in Utah
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  1972 November 2, 1976 1980  
  Gerald Ford presidential portrait (cropped 2).jpg Jimmy Carter 1977 cropped.jpg
Nominee Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Michigan Georgia
Running mate Bob Dole Walter Mondale
Electoral vote40
Popular vote337,908182,110
Percentage62.44%33.65%

Utah 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 Utah took place on November 2, 1976. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.

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Utah was won by incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford over the Democratic nominee, Jimmy Carter. Ford took 62.44% of the vote in the state, while Carter took 33.65%, making Utah around 31% more Republican than the nation in the 1976 election. [1]

Utah was Ford's strongest state in the nation in terms of percentage of the vote, although unlike in Vermont, Ford didn't win every county in Utah. For a presidential candidate who lost the election nationwide, Ford won a record 27 states, a record which stands to this day, but Utah was the only state where Ford broke 60% of the vote statewide. Carter won the election nationwide, and despite the election solidifying Utah's place within the core of the Republican heartland (which it retains to this day), 1976 stands as the last occasion where a Democrat has carried Emery County, [2] where Carter obtained a fifty-four vote plurality win. After Nixon's clean sweep of all twenty-nine counties in 1972, Carter would also win Carbon County with 59.39% of the vote, but Ford won absolute majorities in all twenty-seven remaining Utah counties, with his total vote ranging from 50.34% in Tooele County to 72.50% in Kane County. [3] Ronald Reagan would repeat Nixon's 1972 clean sweep in both his elections, and no county in Utah except Carbon and Tooele would ever vote against a Republican until 2008.

Results

1976 United States presidential election in Utah [4]
PartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes
Republican Gerald Ford (incumbent)337,90862.44%4
Democratic Jimmy Carter 182,11033.65%0
American Party Thomas Anderson 13,2842.45%0
Independent Eugene McCarthy 3,9070.72%0
Libertarian Roger MacBride 2,4380.45%0
Citizen's Party Lester Maddox 1,1620.21%0
Socialist Workers Party Peter Camejo 2680.05%0
Communist Party Gus Hall 1210.02%0
Totals541,198100.0%4

Results by county

County [5] Gerald Ford
Republican
Jimmy Carter
Democratic
Thomas Anderson
American
Eugene McCarthy
Independent
Roger MacBride
Libertarian
Various candidates
Other parties
MarginTotal votes cast
# %# %# %# %# %# %# %
Beaver 1,08852.41%96346.39%100.48%60.29%40.19%50.24%1256.02%2,076
Box Elder 9,31969.02%3,35324.84%7295.40%450.33%340.25%210.16%5,96644.18%13,501
Cache 16,63671.73%5,43023.41%7523.24%2461.06%670.29%630.27%11,20648.32%23,194
Carbon 3,36038.70%5,15759.39%860.99%340.39%330.38%130.15%-1,797-20.69%8,683
Daggett 21759.45%13135.89%143.84%30.82%00.00%00.00%8623.56%365
Davis 31,21666.28%14,08429.90%1,0522.23%3740.79%2260.48%1450.31%17,13236.38%47,097
Duchesne 2,61965.77%1,11027.88%2426.08%80.20%10.03%20.05%1,50937.89%3,982
Emery 1,71747.13%1,77148.61%1062.91%270.74%130.36%90.25%-54-1.48%3,643
Garfield 1,16365.48%53930.35%512.87%110.62%60.34%60.34%62435.13%1,776
Grand 1,78162.38%93132.61%622.17%421.47%260.91%130.46%85029.77%2,855
Iron 4,75769.62%1,70024.88%2703.95%550.80%360.53%150.22%3,05744.74%6,833
Juab 1,29051.58%1,09143.62%923.68%150.60%90.36%40.16%1997.96%2,501
Kane 1,09472.50%33021.87%734.84%80.53%40.27%00.00%76450.63%1,509
Millard 2,48462.68%1,22430.89%2185.50%170.43%90.23%110.28%1,26031.79%3,963
Morgan 1,35662.95%70132.54%783.62%90.42%30.14%70.32%65530.41%2,154
Piute 37755.85%26539.26%243.56%30.44%50.74%10.15%11216.59%675
Rich 54167.12%24830.77%131.61%20.25%20.25%00.00%29336.35%806
Salt Lake 144,10060.35%86,65936.29%3,7961.59%2,1220.89%1,3210.55%7800.33%57,44124.06%238,777
San Juan 1,85657.60%1,18236.69%1434.44%230.71%110.34%70.22%67420.91%3,222
Sanpete 3,68362.06%1,92532.43%2754.63%310.52%130.22%80.13%1,75829.63%5,935
Sevier 3,68665.24%1,56427.68%3576.32%150.27%200.35%80.14%2,12237.56%5,650
Summit 2,31661.55%1,28234.07%772.05%611.62%230.61%40.11%1,03427.48%3,763
Tooele 4,65750.34%4,37147.25%1271.37%470.51%270.29%220.24%2863.09%9,251
Uintah 4,01769.18%1,34223.11%4046.95%310.53%160.28%70.12%2,67546.07%5,807
Utah 49,32869.48%18,32725.82%2,6043.67%2660.37%2390.34%2070.29%31,00143.66%70,993
Wasatch 1,94061.59%1,09234.67%732.32%260.83%140.44%50.16%84826.92%3,150
Washington 5,94470.64%1,89322.50%4675.55%400.48%360.43%340.40%4,05148.14%8,414
Wayne 55559.11%33435.57%343.62%70.75%30.32%60.64%22123.54%939
Weber 34,81158.33%23,11138.72%1,0551.77%3290.55%2300.39%1480.25%11,70019.61%59,684
Totals337,90862.44%182,11033.65%13,2842.45%3,9070.72%2,4380.45%1,5510.29%155,79828.79%541,198

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References

  1. "1976 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  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. 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Utah by County
  4. "1976 Presidential General Election Results – Utah" . Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  5. Our Campaigns; UT US President November 02, 1976