United States presidential election in Alabama, 1976
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The 1976 United States presidential election in Alabama took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 presidential election. Voters chose nine representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Alabama voted for the
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nominee, former Governor Jimmy Carter, over the Republican nominee, President
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. Carter won Alabama by a margin of 13.12%. , this is the last time Alabama has voted Democratic in a presidential election, as well as the last time a Democrat carried any of the following counties:
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, Tuscaloosa,
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, St. Clair, Elmore, DeKalb, Blount,
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, Coffee, Chilton, Escambia,
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, Geneva, Winston, Monroe, and Cleburne.Sullivan, Robert David
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This is also the sole election since Franklin D. Roosevelt eked out a one-vote plurality in
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that a Democrat carried traditionally Republican Winston County, and the sole one since
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in 1856 that a Democrat won an absolute majority of the vote there.


Results


Result by county


See also

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United States presidential elections in Alabama Following is a table of United States presidential elections in Alabama, ordered by year. Since its admission to statehood in 1819, Alabama has participated in every U.S. presidential election except the election of 1864, during the American Civil ...


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References

{{State results of the 1976 U.S. presidential election Alabama
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