1976 United States presidential election in Maryland

← 1972

November 2, 1976

1980 →

All 10 Maryland electoral votes to the Electoral College


Nominee	Jimmy Carter	Gerald Ford
Party	Democratic	Republican
Home state	Georgia	Michigan
Running mate	Walter Mondale	Bob Dole
Electoral vote	10	0
Popular vote	759,612	672,661
Percentage	53.04%	46.96%

County Results

Carter

50–60%

60–70%

Ford

50–60%

60–70%

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Gerald Ford
Republican

Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

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Question P

The 1976 United States presidential election in Maryland was held on November 2, 1976 as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford of Michigan and his running mate Senator Bob Dole 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, Carter won ten of the state's 23 counties, most critically the populous Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in the Washington metropolitan area, and won Baltimore City by almost 100,000 raw votes. Carter began a Democratic winning streak in Prince George's County that continues to this day.^[1]

As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which a Democrat carried Allegany, Calvert, Cecil, and St. Mary’s Counties.^[2]

In this election, Maryland voted 4.01% more Democratic than the nation at-large.^[3]

Results

1976 United States presidential election in Maryland^[4]
Party		Candidate	Running mate	Votes	Percentage	Electoral votes
	Democratic	Jimmy Carter	Walter Mondale	759,612	53.04%	10
	Republican	Gerald Ford	Bob Dole	672,661	46.96%	0

Results by county

County	Jimmy Carter Democratic		Gerald Ford Republican		Margin		Total votes cast^[5]
County	#	%	#	%	#	%	Total votes cast^[5]
Allegany	15,967	50.85%	15,435	49.15%	532	1.70%	31,402
Anne Arundel	54,351	46.97%	61,353	53.03%	-7,002	-6.06%	115,704
Baltimore	118,505	45.27%	143,293	54.73%	-24,788	-9.46%	261,798
Baltimore City	178,593	68.60%	81,762	31.40%	96,831	37.20%	260,355
Calvert	4,626	57.36%	3,439	42.64%	1,187	14.72%	8,065
Caroline	3,017	49.21%	3,114	50.79%	-97	-1.58%	6,131
Carroll	9,940	38.83%	15,661	61.17%	-5,721	-22.34%	25,601
Cecil	8,950	53.33%	7,833	46.67%	1,117	6.66%	16,783
Charles	9,525	55.00%	7,792	45.00%	1,733	10.00%	17,317
Dorchester	4,528	48.71%	4,768	51.29%	-240	-2.58%	9,296
Frederick	14,542	44.77%	17,941	55.23%	-3,399	-10.46%	32,483
Garrett	3,332	41.80%	4,640	58.20%	-1,308	-16.40%	7,972
Harford	19,890	45.00%	24,309	55.00%	-4,419	-10.00%	44,199
Howard	20,533	49.20%	21,200	50.80%	-667	-1.60%	41,733
Kent	3,211	53.23%	2,821	46.77%	390	6.46%	6,032
Montgomery	131,098	51.66%	122,674	48.34%	8,424	3.32%	253,772
Prince George's	111,743	57.97%	81,027	42.03%	30,716	15.94%	192,770
Queen Anne's	3,457	49.84%	3,479	50.16%	-22	-0.32%	6,936
Somerset	3,472	51.62%	3,254	48.38%	218	3.24%	6,726
St. Mary's	7,227	56.17%	5,640	43.83%	1,587	12.34%	12,867
Talbot	3,715	38.85%	5,848	61.15%	-2,133	-22.30%	9,563
Washington	15,902	44.05%	20,194	55.95%	-4,292	-11.90%	36,096
Wicomico	9,412	47.18%	10,537	52.82%	-1,125	-5.64%	19,949
Worcester	4,076	46.73%	4,647	53.27%	-571	-6.54%	8,723
Totals	759,612	53.04%	672,661	46.96%	86,951	6.08%	1,432,273

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

References

^ 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Maryland by County
^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
^ "Dave Leip's Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections". uselectionatlas.org. Retrieved March 31, 2023.
^ "1976 Presidential General Election Results - Maryland". Retrieved September 18, 2015.
^ Maryland State Board of Elections, ‘For President of the United States’ Maryland General Election Returns – November 2, 1976 (Annapolis, 1976)

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(← 1972) 1976 United States presidential election (1980 →)

Democratic Party

Candidates

Nominee: Jimmy Carter
- campaign
VP nominee: Walter Mondale

Republican Party

Convention Primaries
Candidates	Incumbent nominee: Gerald Ford campaign VP nominee: Bob Dole Other candidates: James L. Buckley Ronald Reagan campaign positions Harold Stassen

Third-party and independent candidates
American Party	Nominee: Thomas J. Anderson
American Independent Party	Nominee: Lester Maddox
Communist Party	Nominee: Gus Hall VP nominee: Jarvis Tyner
Libertarian Party	Nominee: Roger MacBride VP nominee: David Bergland
People's Party	Nominee: Margaret Wright VP nominee: Benjamin Spock
Prohibition Party	Nominee: Ben Bubar VP nominee: Earl Dodge
Socialist Workers Party	Nominee: Peter Camejo VP nominee: Willie Mae Reid
U.S. Labor Party	Nominee: Lyndon LaRouche

Other 1976 elections: House
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Attorney General	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
Comptroller	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
County Executive	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
County offices	2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
See also: Political party strength in Maryland

Results

Results by county

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

See also

References