1976 United States presidential election in New Hampshire

none June 2025 September 2023 1976 United States presidential election 1976 United States presidential election in New Hampshire New Hampshire presidential no 1972 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 1972 1980 United States presidential election in New Hampshire 1980 November 2, 1976 x200px Gerald Ford, second official portrait of the President of the United States, February 1976 (HQ) (cropped closer).jpg Gerald Ford Republican Party (United States) Michigan Bob Dole 4 185,935 54.75% Jimmy Carter 1977 cropped.jpg Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) Georgia Walter Mondale 0 147,635 43.47% x280px County results x280px Municipality results Ford #F2B3BE 40–50% #E27F90 50–60% #CC2F4A 60–70% #D40000 70–80% #AA0000 80–90% #800000 90–100% Carter #B9D7FF 40–50% #86b6f2 50–60% #4389E3 60–70% #1666cb 70–80% President Gerald Ford Republican Party (United States) Jimmy Carter Democratic Party (United States) The 1976 United States presidential election in New Hampshire took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. New Hampshire was won by the Republican nominees, incumbent President Gerald Ford of Michigan and his running mate Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. Ford and Dole defeated the Democratic nominees, Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia and his running mate Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota. Ford took 54.75% of the vote to Carter's 43.47%, a margin of 11.28%. Anti-war former Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, running as an independent presidential candidate, came in a distant third, with 1.21%. New Hampshire in this era normally leaned Republican, having not gone Democratic since the nationwide Democratic landslide of 1964. The Northern moderate Republican Ford easily triumphed in New Hampshire over the Southern Democrat Jimmy Carter. On the county map, Ford won nine of New Hampshire's ten counties, with only rural Coos County in the far north of the state giving a 51-49 majority to Carter. In a sign of the state's Republican trend that would occur in the 1970s and 1980s, even while narrowly losing the national race, Ford won two of the state's traditional New Deal Democratic counties, with a majority win in Hillsborough County and a plurality win in Strafford County. Since 1932, both of these counties, along with Coos County, had gone Democratic in every close presidential election or Democratic victory, voting every time for Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Hubert H. Humphrey. Carter became the first Democrat to win the White House without carrying Hillsborough County and Strafford County since Grover Cleveland in 1892. Ford's decisive victory in New Hampshire, while narrowly losing the national race, would make the state over 13% more Republican than the national average in the 1976 election. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last time that a Democrat would win a presidential election without carrying New Hampshire, and the last presidential election until 2016 when the winner of Coös County did not also carry the state as well. The state would not vote for the loser of the popular vote until 2000, and for a losing candidate again until 2004. Results 1976 United States presidential election in New Hampshirehttp://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1976&fips=33&f=0&off=0&elect=0&minper=0 1976 Presidential General Election Results - New Hampshire 2013-11-16 Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential ElectionsPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral votes Republican Gerald Ford (incumbent) 185,935 54.75% 4 Democratic Jimmy Carter 147,635 43.47% 0 McCarthy '76 Eugene McCarthy 4,095 1.21% 0 Libertarian Roger MacBride 936 0.28% 0 Write-ins Write-ins 604 0.18% 0 U.S. Labor Lyndon LaRouche 186 0.05% 0 Socialist Workers Peter Camejo 161 0.05% 0 Socialist Labor Julius Levin 66 0.02% 0 Totals 339,618 100.00% 4 Voter Turnout (Voting age/Registered) 57%/71% Results by county CountyOur Campaigns; NH US President Race, November 02, 1976Gerald FordRepublicanJimmy CarterDemocraticEugene McCarthyMcCarthy ‘76Various candidatesOther partiesMarginTotal votes cast # % # % # % # % # % Belknap 9,876 60.78% 6,143 37.81% 120 0.74% 110 0.68% 3,733 22.97% 16,249 Carroll 8,561 70.18% 3,374 27.66% 169 1.39% 94 0.77% 5,187 42.52% 12,198 Cheshire 12,554 53.87% 10,388 44.57% 260 1.12% 103 0.44% 2,166 9.30% 23,305 Coös 7,094 48.46% 7,385 50.45% 92 0.63% 67 0.46% -291 -1.99% 14,638 Grafton 14,430 60.34% 8,996 37.62% 369 1.54% 119 0.50% 5,434 22.72% 23,914 Hillsborough 53,581 53.11% 45,544 45.15% 1,168 1.16% 587 0.58% 8,037 7.96% 100,880 Merrimack 21,853 58.62% 14,865 39.87% 377 1.01% 187 0.50% 6,988 18.75% 37,282 Rockingham 36,738 53.92% 30,051 44.11% 903 1.33% 438 0.64% 6,687 9.81% 68,130 Strafford 14,569 49.61% 14,566 49.60% 50 0.17% 180 0.61% 3 0.01% 29,365 Sullivan 6,679 50.57% 6,323 47.88% 137 1.04% 68 0.51% 356 2.69% 13,207Total185,93554.75%147,63543.47%4,0951.21%1,9530.58%38,30011.28%339,618 Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Coos See also Presidency of Jimmy Carter United States presidential elections in New Hampshire References expanded 1976 New Hamp presidential