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The 1976 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on November 2, 1976. 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 the state with 53.04 percent of the vote compared to Ford and Dole’s 46.96 percent – a comfortable margin of 6.08 percent.
After Nixon had won every county-equivalent in the state except for Baltimore City in 1972, Carter won ten of twenty-three counties, most critically the populous Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties in the Washington metropolitan area and the Lower Southern counties of St. Mary’s, Charles and Calvert. In a two-way contest, Ford did not win more than 61.2 percent (Carroll County and Talbot County) of the vote in any county.[1] This is the last time St. Mary’s, Calvert, Cecil and Allegany Counties have given Democrat majorities or pluralities in a presidential election.[2]
Results
| United States presidential election in Maryland, 1976[3] | ||||||
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| Party | Candidate | Running mate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
| Democratic | Jimmy Carter | Walter Mondale | 759,612 | 53.04% | 10 | |
| Republican | Gerald Ford | Bob Dole | 672,661 | 46.96% | 0 | |
Results by county
| County | James Earl Carter Democratic |
Gerald Rudolph Ford Republican |
Margin | Total votes cast[4] | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Allegany | 15,967 | 50.85% | 15,435 | 49.15% | 532 | 1.69% | 31,402 |
| Anne Arundel | 54,351 | 46.97% | 61,353 | 53.03% | -7,002 | -6.05% | 115,704 |
| Baltimore County | 118,505 | 45.27% | 143,293 | 54.73% | -24,788 | -9.47% | 261,798 |
| Baltimore City | 178,593 | 68.60% | 81,762 | 31.40% | 96,831 | 37.19% | 260,355 |
| Calvert | 4,626 | 57.36% | 3,439 | 42.64% | 1,187 | 14.72% | 8,065 |
| Caroline | 3,017 | 49.21% | 3,114 | 50.79% | -97 | -1.58% | 6,131 |
| Carroll | 9,940 | 38.83% | 15,661 | 61.17% | -5,721 | -22.35% | 25,601 |
| Cecil | 8,950 | 53.33% | 7,833 | 46.67% | 1,117 | 6.66% | 16,783 |
| Charles | 9,525 | 55.00% | 7,792 | 45.00% | 1,733 | 10.01% | 17,317 |
| Dorchester | 4,528 | 48.71% | 4,768 | 51.29% | -240 | -2.58% | 9,296 |
| Frederick | 14,542 | 44.77% | 17,941 | 55.23% | -3,399 | -10.46% | 32,483 |
| Garrett | 3,332 | 41.80% | 4,640 | 58.20% | -1,308 | -16.41% | 7,972 |
| Harford | 19,890 | 45.00% | 24,309 | 55.00% | -4,419 | -10.00% | 44,199 |
| Howard | 20,533 | 49.20% | 21,200 | 50.80% | -667 | -1.60% | 41,733 |
| Kent | 3,211 | 53.23% | 2,821 | 46.77% | 390 | 6.47% | 6,032 |
| Montgomery | 131,098 | 51.66% | 122,674 | 48.34% | 8,424 | 3.32% | 253,772 |
| Prince George's | 111,743 | 57.97% | 81,027 | 42.03% | 30,716 | 15.93% | 192,770 |
| Queen Anne's | 3,457 | 49.84% | 3,479 | 50.16% | -22 | -0.32% | 6,936 |
| Somerset | 3,472 | 51.62% | 3,254 | 48.38% | 218 | 3.24% | 6,726 |
| St. Mary's | 7,227 | 56.17% | 5,640 | 43.83% | 1,587 | 12.33% | 12,867 |
| Talbot | 3,715 | 38.85% | 5,848 | 61.15% | -2,133 | -22.30% | 9,563 |
| Washington | 15,902 | 44.05% | 20,194 | 55.95% | -4,292 | -11.89% | 36,096 |
| Wicomico | 9,412 | 47.18% | 10,537 | 52.82% | -1,125 | -5.64% | 19,949 |
| Worcester | 4,076 | 46.73% | 4,647 | 53.27% | -571 | -6.55% | 8,723 |
| Totals | 759,612 | 53.04% | 672,661 | 46.96% | 86,951 | 6.07% | 1,432,273 |
References
- ^ 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Maryland by County
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- ^ "1976 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland". Retrieved 2015-09-18.
- ^ Maryland State Board of Elections, ‘For President of the United States’ Maryland General Election Returns – November 2, 1976 (Annapolis, 1976)
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