1976 United States presidential election in Arkansas
Nominee | Jimmy Carter | Gerald Ford |
---|---|---|
Party | Democratic | Republican |
Home state | Georgia | Michigan |
Running mate | Walter Mondale | Bob Dole |
Electoral vote | 6 | 0 |
Popular vote | 499,614 | 268,753 |
Percentage | 64.94% | 34.93% |
Carter
Ford
The 1976 United States presidential election in Arkansas took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the wider 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose six electors to represent them in the Electoral College.
Arkansas overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic Party, former governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter and his running mate Minnesota U.S. Senator Walter Mondale with 64.94% of the vote. The Carter/Mondale ticket defeated Republican incumbent president Gerald Ford of Michigan and his running mate Kansas U.S. Senator Bob Dole in the state by a margin of 30.01%. Arkansas weighed in as nearly thirty percent more Democratic than the national average.[1]
58% of white voters supported Carter while 42% supported Ford.[2] [3]
As of the 2016 presidential election, this is the last election in which Searcy County and Crawford County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[4]
Results
[edit ]1976 United States presidential election in Arkansas[1] | |||||
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Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | |
Democratic | Jimmy Carter | 499,614 | 64.94% | 6 | |
Republican | Gerald Ford (incumbent) | 268,753 | 34.93% | 0 | |
Write-ins | Eugene McCarthy | 647 | 0.08% | 0 | |
Write-ins | Thomas J. Anderson | 382 | 0.05% | 0 | |
Totals | 769,396 | 100.00% | 6 | ||
Voter turnout (Voting age/Registered voters) | 51%/75% |
Results by county
[edit ]County | Jimmy Carter Democratic |
Gerald Ford Republican |
Various candidates Write-ins |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
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# | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
Arkansas | 5,640 | 69.46% | 2,480 | 30.54% | 3,160 | 38.92% | 8,120 | ||
Ashley | 5,253 | 62.88% | 3,092 | 37.01% | 9 | 0.11% | 2,161 | 25.87% | 8,354 |
Baxter | 5,766 | 49.49% | 5,885 | 50.51% | -119 | -1.02% | 11,651 | ||
Benton | 11,289 | 47.00% | 12,670 | 52.75% | 61 | 0.25% | -1,381 | -5.75% | 24,020 |
Boone | 5,388 | 57.64% | 3,959 | 42.36% | 1,429 | 15.28% | 9,347 | ||
Bradley | 3,567 | 75.88% | 1,134 | 24.12% | 2,433 | 51.76% | 4,701 | ||
Calhoun | 2,014 | 80.11% | 495 | 19.69% | 5 | 0.20% | 1,519 | 60.42% | 2,514 |
Carroll | 3,791 | 57.01% | 2,804 | 42.17% | 55 | 0.83% | 987 | 14.84% | 6,650 |
Chicot | 3,868 | 70.39% | 1,621 | 29.50% | 6 | 0.11% | 2,247 | 40.89% | 5,495 |
Clark | 6,641 | 78.32% | 1,816 | 21.42% | 22 | 0.26% | 4,825 | 56.90% | 8,479 |
Clay | 5,664 | 74.95% | 1,893 | 25.05% | 3,771 | 49.90% | 7,557 | ||
Cleburne | 5,726 | 74.07% | 1,992 | 25.77% | 13 | 0.17% | 3,734 | 48.30% | 7,731 |
Cleveland | 2,320 | 78.22% | 646 | 21.78% | 1,674 | 56.44% | 2,966 | ||
Columbia | 4,708 | 52.31% | 4,287 | 47.63% | 6 | 0.07% | 421 | 4.68% | 9,001 |
Conway | 6,443 | 74.67% | 2,177 | 25.23% | 9 | 0.10% | 4,266 | 49.44% | 8,629 |
Craighead | 13,840 | 69.02% | 6,213 | 30.98% | 7,627 | 38.04% | 20,053 | ||
Crawford | 5,946 | 55.52% | 4,764 | 44.48% | 1,182 | 11.04% | 10,710 | ||
Crittenden | 8,249 | 61.26% | 5,202 | 38.63% | 14 | 0.10% | 3,047 | 22.63% | 13,465 |
Cross | 4,198 | 68.40% | 1,909 | 31.11% | 30 | 0.49% | 2,289 | 37.29% | 6,137 |
Dallas | 3,266 | 76.20% | 1,012 | 23.61% | 8 | 0.19% | 2,254 | 52.59% | 4,286 |
Desha | 4,228 | 75.50% | 1,372 | 24.50% | 2,856 | 51.00% | 5,600 | ||
Drew | 3,750 | 68.43% | 1,730 | 31.57% | 2,020 | 36.86% | 5,480 | ||
Faulkner | 11,423 | 74.45% | 3,904 | 25.44% | 16 | 0.10% | 7,519 | 49.01% | 15,343 |
Franklin | 3,703 | 65.24% | 1,973 | 34.76% | 1,730 | 30.48% | 5,676 | ||
Fulton | 2,670 | 71.87% | 1,038 | 27.94% | 7 | 0.19% | 1,632 | 43.93% | 3,715 |
Garland | 15,707 | 60.02% | 10,394 | 39.72% | 69 | 0.26% | 5,313 | 20.30% | 26,170 |
Grant | 3,797 | 78.39% | 1,047 | 21.61% | 2,750 | 56.78% | 4,844 | ||
Greene | 7,495 | 73.54% | 2,690 | 26.39% | 7 | 0.07% | 4,805 | 47.15% | 10,192 |
Hempstead | 5,397 | 65.37% | 2,859 | 34.63% | 2,538 | 30.74% | 8,256 | ||
Hot Spring | 7,809 | 78.12% | 2,187 | 21.88% | 5,622 | 56.24% | 9,996 | ||
Howard | 3,207 | 67.06% | 1,575 | 32.94% | 1,632 | 34.12% | 4,782 | ||
Independence | 7,116 | 71.17% | 2,878 | 28.79% | 4 | 0.04% | 4,238 | 42.38% | 9,998 |
Izard | 3,328 | 70.48% | 1,394 | 29.52% | 1,934 | 40.96% | 4,722 | ||
Jackson | 6,456 | 78.36% | 1,783 | 21.64% | 4,673 | 56.72% | 8,239 | ||
Jefferson | 21,001 | 72.33% | 8,034 | 27.67% | 12,967 | 44.66% | 29,035 | ||
Johnson | 5,044 | 69.89% | 2,173 | 30.11% | 2,871 | 39.78% | 7,217 | ||
Lafayette | 2,342 | 61.49% | 1,467 | 38.51% | 875 | 22.98% | 3,809 | ||
Lawrence | 5,167 | 75.08% | 1,708 | 24.82% | 7 | 0.10% | 3,459 | 50.26% | 6,882 |
Lee | 3,463 | 68.74% | 1,574 | 31.24% | 1 | 0.02% | 1,889 | 37.50% | 5,038 |
Lincoln | 3,045 | 81.33% | 699 | 18.67% | 2,346 | 62.66% | 3,744 | ||
Little River | 3,142 | 68.71% | 1,431 | 31.29% | 1,711 | 37.42% | 4,573 | ||
Logan | 5,313 | 64.06% | 2,909 | 35.07% | 72 | 0.87% | 2,404 | 28.99% | 8,294 |
Lonoke | 7,761 | 75.36% | 2,522 | 24.49% | 16 | 0.16% | 5,239 | 50.87% | 10,299 |
Madison | 2,926 | 53.91% | 2,502 | 46.09% | 424 | 7.82% | 5,428 | ||
Marion | 2,979 | 59.30% | 2,045 | 40.70% | 934 | 18.60% | 5,024 | ||
Miller | 6,648 | 58.58% | 4,679 | 41.23% | 22 | 0.19% | 1,969 | 17.35% | 11,349 |
Mississippi | 10,292 | 63.03% | 6,009 | 36.80% | 27 | 0.17% | 4,283 | 26.23% | 16,328 |
Monroe | 3,556 | 73.35% | 1,285 | 26.51% | 7 | 0.14% | 2,271 | 46.84% | 4,848 |
Montgomery | 2,420 | 72.37% | 924 | 27.63% | 1,496 | 44.74% | 3,344 | ||
Nevada | 3,101 | 72.64% | 1,163 | 27.24% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,938 | 45.40% | 4,269 |
Newton | 1,840 | 53.32% | 1,611 | 46.68% | 229 | 6.64% | 3,451 | ||
Ouachita | 8,946 | 76.47% | 2,753 | 23.53% | 6,193 | 52.94% | 11,699 | ||
Perry | 2,310 | 73.52% | 832 | 26.48% | 1,478 | 47.04% | 3,142 | ||
Phillips | 7,774 | 69.93% | 3,342 | 30.06% | 1 | 0.01% | 4,432 | 39.87% | 11,117 |
Pike | 2,822 | 69.40% | 1,234 | 30.35% | 10 | 0.25% | 1,588 | 39.05% | 4,066 |
Poinsett | 6,835 | 71.45% | 2,726 | 28.50% | 5 | 0.05% | 4,109 | 42.95% | 9,566 |
Polk | 3,505 | 58.75% | 2,432 | 40.76% | 29 | 0.49% | 1,073 | 17.99% | 5,966 |
Pope | 8,355 | 65.62% | 4,348 | 34.15% | 29 | 0.23% | 4,007 | 31.47% | 12,732 |
Prairie | 2,836 | 77.72% | 813 | 22.28% | 2,023 | 55.44% | 3,649 | ||
Pulaski | 63,541 | 62.62% | 37,690 | 37.14% | 244 | 0.24% | 25,851 | 25.48% | 101,475 |
Randolph | 4,551 | 74.34% | 1,571 | 25.66% | 2,980 | 48.68% | 6,122 | ||
St. Francis | 6,851 | 65.12% | 3,639 | 34.59% | 30 | 0.29% | 3,212 | 30.53% | 10,520 |
Saline | 12,008 | 74.41% | 4,123 | 25.55% | 7 | 0.04% | 7,885 | 48.86% | 16,138 |
Scott | 2,880 | 66.79% | 1,427 | 33.09% | 5 | 0.12% | 1,453 | 33.70% | 4,312 |
Searcy | 3,180 | 54.09% | 2,699 | 45.91% | 481 | 8.18% | 5,879 | ||
Sebastian | 15,768 | 47.11% | 17,671 | 52.79% | 34 | 0.10% | -1,903 | -5.68% | 33,473 |
Sevier | 3,391 | 69.53% | 1,468 | 30.10% | 18 | 0.37% | 1,923 | 39.43% | 4,877 |
Sharp | 3,532 | 62.15% | 2,151 | 37.85% | 1,381 | 24.30% | 5,683 | ||
Stone | 2,718 | 72.54% | 1,014 | 27.06% | 15 | 0.40% | 1,704 | 45.48% | 3,747 |
Union | 8,257 | 51.03% | 7,918 | 48.93% | 7 | 0.04% | 339 | 2.10% | 16,182 |
Van Buren | 4,004 | 71.14% | 1,624 | 28.86% | 2,380 | 42.28% | 5,628 | ||
Washington | 15,610 | 52.32% | 14,132 | 47.37% | 92 | 0.31% | 1,478 | 4.95% | 29,834 |
White | 11,412 | 70.58% | 4,756 | 29.42% | 6,656 | 41.16% | 16,168 | ||
Woodruff | 3,040 | 78.09% | 848 | 21.78% | 5 | 0.13% | 2,192 | 56.31% | 3,893 |
Yell | 5,785 | 74.96% | 1,932 | 25.04% | 3,853 | 49.92% | 7,717 | ||
Totals | 499,614 | 64.94% | 268,753 | 34.93% | 1,029 | 0.13% | 230,861 | 30.01% | 769,396 |
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
[edit ]- Boone
- Carroll
- Chicot
- Clark
- Cleburne
- Columbia
- Craighead
- Crawford
- Desha
- Hot Spring
- Franklin
- Garland
- Fulton
- Jackson
- Jefferson
- Logan
- Lonoke
- Lee
- Lincoln
- Phillips
- Madison
- Marion
- Miller
- Newton
- Polk
- Pope
- Searcy
- Sharp
- Union
- Van Buren
- Washington
- Woodruff
- Arkansas
- Ashley
- Bradley
- Calhoun
- Clay
- Cleveland
- Conway
- Cross
- Crittenden
- Dallas
- Faulkner
- Drew
- Grant
- Greene
- Hempstead
- Howard
- Independence
- Izard
- Johnson
- Lafayette
- Lawrence
- Little River
- Mississippi
- Monroe
- Montgomery
- Nevada
- Ouachita
- Perry
- Pike
- Poinsett
- Prairie
- Pulaski
- Randolph
- St. Francis
- Saline
- Scott
- Sevier
- Stone
- White
- Yell
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ a b Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1976 Presidential General Election Results – Arkansas
- ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 295.
- ^ Black & Black 1992, p. 335.
- ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016