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Election day
November 2
Incumbent president
Gerald Ford (Republican)
Next Congress
95th
Presidential election
Partisan control
Democratic gain
Popular vote margin
Democratic +2.1%
Electoral vote
Jimmy Carter (D)
297
Gerald Ford (R)
240
1976 presidential election results. Red denotes states won by Ford, blue denotes states won by Carter. Numbers indicate the electoral votes won by each candidate.
Senate elections
Overall control
Democratic hold
Seats contested
34 of 100 seats
Net seat change
Republican +1
1976 Senate results
Democratic gain Democratic hold Republican gain Republican hold
Independent hold
House elections
Overall control
Democratic hold
Seats contested
All 435 voting members
Popular vote margin
Democratic +13.6%
Net seat change
Democratic +1
1976 House of Representatives results
Democratic gain Democratic hold
Republican gain Republican hold
Gubernatorial elections
Seats contested
15 (14 states, 1 territories)
Net seat change
Democratic +1
1976 gubernatorial election results Territorial races not shown
Democratic gain Democratic hold
Republican gain Republican hold
The 1976 United States elections were held on November 2, and elected the members of the 95th United States Congress. The Democratic Party won the presidential election and retained control of Congress.[1]
Former Democratic Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia defeated Republican incumbent President Gerald Ford.[2] Carter won the popular vote by two points and finished with 297 electoral votes, taking a mix of Southern and Northern states. Ford, who had taken office after the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of Republican President Richard Nixon in 1974, defeated former California Governor Ronald Reagan to take the Republican nomination. The convention nominated Kansas Senator Bob Dole as Ford's running mate, instead of sitting Vice President Nelson Rockefeller. Carter defeated a slew of competitors in the 1976 Democratic primaries, including California Governor Jerry Brown, Alabama Governor George Wallace, Arizona Congressman Mo Udall, Washington Senator Henry M. Jackson, and Idaho Senator Frank Church.
Neither the House nor Senate saw major changes in partisan composition, so the Democrats retained control of Congress. Democrats won the nationwide popular vote for the House of Representatives by a margin of 13.6 percentage points.[3]
In the gubernatorial elections, the Democratic Party picked up one seat.
^"Statistics of the Presidential and Congressional Election of November 2, 1976" (PDF). U.S. House of Reps, Office of the Clerk. Retrieved 10 April 2017.
^"1976 Presidential Election". US Elections. University of Connecticut. Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 13 August 2011.
^"Election Statistics, 1920 to Present". United States House of Representatives.
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