The 1976 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on November 2, 1976 as part of the
1976 United States presidential election
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan by a narrow ...
.
Incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford
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of
Michigan and his running mate
Senator
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Bob Dole
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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%.
After Nixon had won every county-equivalent in the state except for
Baltimore City in
1972
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, Carter won 10 of 23 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
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and Calvert. In a 2-way contest, Ford did not win more than 61.2% (
Carroll County and
Talbot County) of the vote in any county. As of
2020
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, this is the last election in which a Democrat carried one of the three counties in
Western Maryland, namely
Allegany County, as well as the last time
St. Mary’s,
Calvert, and
Cecil
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Counties have given Democrat majorities or pluralities in a presidential election. This is also the last time the Democrat has won a majority of the vote in
Kent County.
Results
Results by county
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
*
Allegany
*
Calvert
*
Cecil
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*
Charles
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*
Kent
*
Montgomery
*
Prince George's
*
Somerset
*
St. Mary's
See also
*
United States presidential elections in Maryland
*
1976 United States presidential election
The 1976 United States presidential election was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Democrat Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford from Michigan by a narrow ...
*
1976 United States elections
Notes
References
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