1976 United States presidential election in Utah

The 1976 United States presidential election in Utah took place on November 2, 1976. All 50 states and the District of Columbia, were part of the 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, which selected the president and vice president of the United States.

1976 United States presidential election in Utah

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Nominee Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Michigan Georgia
Running mate Bob Dole Walter Mondale
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 337,908 182,110
Percentage 62.44% 33.65%

County Results

President before election

Gerald Ford
Republican

Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

Utah was won by incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford over the Democratic nominee, Jimmy Carter. Ford took 62.44% of the vote in the state, while Carter took 33.65%, making Utah around 31% more Republican than the nation in the 1976 election.[1]

Utah was Ford's strongest state in the nation in terms of percentage of the vote, although unlike in Vermont, Ford didn't win every county in Utah. For a presidential candidate who lost the election nationwide, Ford won a record 27 states, a record which stands to this day, but Utah was the only state where Ford broke 60% of the vote statewide. Carter won the election nationwide, and despite the election solidifying Utah's place within the core of the Republican heartland (which it retains to this day), 1976 stands as the last occasion where a Democrat has carried Emery County,[2] where Carter obtained a fifty-four vote plurality win. After Nixon's clean sweep of all twenty-nine counties in 1972, Carter would also win Carbon County with 59.39% of the vote, but Ford won absolute majorities in all twenty-seven remaining Utah counties, with his total vote ranging from 50.34% in Tooele County to 72.50% in Kane County.[3] Ronald Reagan would repeat Nixon's 1972 clean sweep in both his elections, and no county in Utah except Carbon and Tooele would ever vote against a Republican until 2008.

Results

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1976 United States presidential election in Utah[4]
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Republican Gerald Ford (incumbent) 337,908 62.44% 4
Democratic Jimmy Carter 182,110 33.65% 0
American Party Thomas Anderson 13,284 2.45% 0
Independent Eugene McCarthy 3,907 0.72% 0
Libertarian Roger MacBride 2,438 0.45% 0
Citizen's Party Lester Maddox 1,162 0.21% 0
Socialist Workers Party Peter Camejo 268 0.05% 0
Communist Party Gus Hall 121 0.02% 0
Totals 541,198 100.0% 4

Results by county

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County[5] Gerald Ford
Republican
Jimmy Carter
Democratic
Thomas Anderson
American
Eugene McCarthy
Independent
Roger MacBride
Libertarian
Various candidates
Other parties
Margin Total votes cast
# % # % # % # % # % # % # %
Beaver 1,088 52.41% 963 46.39% 10 0.48% 6 0.29% 4 0.19% 5 0.24% 125 6.02% 2,076
Box Elder 9,319 69.02% 3,353 24.84% 729 5.40% 45 0.33% 34 0.25% 21 0.16% 5,966 44.18% 13,501
Cache 16,636 71.73% 5,430 23.41% 752 3.24% 246 1.06% 67 0.29% 63 0.27% 11,206 48.32% 23,194
Carbon 3,360 38.70% 5,157 59.39% 86 0.99% 34 0.39% 33 0.38% 13 0.15% -1,797 -20.69% 8,683
Daggett 217 59.45% 131 35.89% 14 3.84% 3 0.82% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 86 23.56% 365
Davis 31,216 66.28% 14,084 29.90% 1,052 2.23% 374 0.79% 226 0.48% 145 0.31% 17,132 36.38% 47,097
Duchesne 2,619 65.77% 1,110 27.88% 242 6.08% 8 0.20% 1 0.03% 2 0.05% 1,509 37.89% 3,982
Emery 1,717 47.13% 1,771 48.61% 106 2.91% 27 0.74% 13 0.36% 9 0.25% -54 -1.48% 3,643
Garfield 1,163 65.48% 539 30.35% 51 2.87% 11 0.62% 6 0.34% 6 0.34% 624 35.13% 1,776
Grand 1,781 62.38% 931 32.61% 62 2.17% 42 1.47% 26 0.91% 13 0.46% 850 29.77% 2,855
Iron 4,757 69.62% 1,700 24.88% 270 3.95% 55 0.80% 36 0.53% 15 0.22% 3,057 44.74% 6,833
Juab 1,290 51.58% 1,091 43.62% 92 3.68% 15 0.60% 9 0.36% 4 0.16% 199 7.96% 2,501
Kane 1,094 72.50% 330 21.87% 73 4.84% 8 0.53% 4 0.27% 0 0.00% 764 50.63% 1,509
Millard 2,484 62.68% 1,224 30.89% 218 5.50% 17 0.43% 9 0.23% 11 0.28% 1,260 31.79% 3,963
Morgan 1,356 62.95% 701 32.54% 78 3.62% 9 0.42% 3 0.14% 7 0.32% 655 30.41% 2,154
Piute 377 55.85% 265 39.26% 24 3.56% 3 0.44% 5 0.74% 1 0.15% 112 16.59% 675
Rich 541 67.12% 248 30.77% 13 1.61% 2 0.25% 2 0.25% 0 0.00% 293 36.35% 806
Salt Lake 144,100 60.35% 86,659 36.29% 3,796 1.59% 2,122 0.89% 1,321 0.55% 780 0.33% 57,441 24.06% 238,777
San Juan 1,856 57.60% 1,182 36.69% 143 4.44% 23 0.71% 11 0.34% 7 0.22% 674 20.91% 3,222
Sanpete 3,683 62.06% 1,925 32.43% 275 4.63% 31 0.52% 13 0.22% 8 0.13% 1,758 29.63% 5,935
Sevier 3,686 65.24% 1,564 27.68% 357 6.32% 15 0.27% 20 0.35% 8 0.14% 2,122 37.56% 5,650
Summit 2,316 61.55% 1,282 34.07% 77 2.05% 61 1.62% 23 0.61% 4 0.11% 1,034 27.48% 3,763
Tooele 4,657 50.34% 4,371 47.25% 127 1.37% 47 0.51% 27 0.29% 22 0.24% 286 3.09% 9,251
Uintah 4,017 69.18% 1,342 23.11% 404 6.95% 31 0.53% 16 0.28% 7 0.12% 2,675 46.07% 5,807
Utah 49,328 69.48% 18,327 25.82% 2,604 3.67% 266 0.37% 239 0.34% 207 0.29% 31,001 43.66% 70,993
Wasatch 1,940 61.59% 1,092 34.67% 73 2.32% 26 0.83% 14 0.44% 5 0.16% 848 26.92% 3,150
Washington 5,944 70.64% 1,893 22.50% 467 5.55% 40 0.48% 36 0.43% 34 0.40% 4,051 48.14% 8,414
Wayne 555 59.11% 334 35.57% 34 3.62% 7 0.75% 3 0.32% 6 0.64% 221 23.54% 939
Weber 34,811 58.33% 23,111 38.72% 1,055 1.77% 329 0.55% 230 0.39% 148 0.25% 11,700 19.61% 59,684
Totals 337,908 62.44% 182,110 33.65% 13,284 2.45% 3,907 0.72% 2,438 0.45% 1,551 0.29% 155,798 28.79% 541,198

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "1976 Presidential Election Statistics". Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. Retrieved March 5, 2018.
  2. ^ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
  3. ^ 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Utah by County
  4. ^ "1976 Presidential General Election Results – Utah". Retrieved December 5, 2016.
  5. ^ Our Campaigns; UT US President November 02, 1976