1976 Republican Party presidential primaries information
Selection of Republican US presidential candidate
1976 Republican Party presidential primaries
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January 19 to June 8, 1976
1980 →
2,259 delegates to the Republican National Convention 1,130 votes needed to win
Candidate
Gerald Ford
Ronald Reagan
Home state
Michigan
California
Delegate count
1,121[1]
1,078[1]
Contests won
27
24
Popular vote
5,529,899
4,760,222
Percentage
53.3%
45.9%
First place by first-instance vote
First place by delegate allocation
First place by convention roll call
Ford Reagan Uncommitted
Previous Republican nominee
Richard Nixon
Republican nominee
Gerald Ford
From January 19 to June 8, 1976, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1976 United States presidential election. The major candidates were incumbent President Gerald Ford and former Governor of California Ronald Reagan. After a series of primary elections and caucuses, neither secured a majority of the delegates before the convention.
The 1976 election marks the first time that Republican primaries or caucuses were held in every state and D.C.; the Democrats had done so in 1972. It was also the last election in which the Republican nominee was undetermined at the start of the party's national convention.
^ abBased on Time Magazine estimate prior to the 1976 convention; both candidates were short of the needed 1,130 delegates. "Another Loss For the Gipper." CNN AllPolitics "Back in TIME" series. Retrieved March 24, 2016.
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