1976 United States presidential election in Massachusetts (original) (raw)
The 1976 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, over incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford of Michigan. Carter's running mate was Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota, while Ford ran with Senator Bob Dole of Kansas.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| dbo:abstract | The 1976 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, over incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford of Michigan. Carter's running mate was Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota, while Ford ran with Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. Carter carried Massachusetts with 56.11% of the vote to Ford's 40.44%, a 15.67% margin of victory. In a distant third was Independent candidate Eugene McCarthy, a former Democratic Senator from Minnesota known for his anti-war activism, who took 2.58%. As Carter narrowly defeated Ford nationally to win the presidency, Massachusetts weighed in as 13% more Democratic than the national average in the 1976 election. Massachusetts had been a Democratic-leaning state since 1928, and a Democratic stronghold since 1960, so Carter's win was not unexpected. In 1972, Massachusetts was the only state in the nation to vote for Democrat George McGovern over Republican Richard Nixon in the latter's 49-state landslide. McGovern had carried Massachusetts 54–45, despite losing every other state in the midst of a massive Republican landslide. Ford for his part performed relatively strongly in the state as a moderate Northern Republican, holding at just over 40% of the vote, while Carter gained only slightly over McGovern- even though Carter was winning nationally while McGovern was losing in a landslide. The state's capital and largest city, Boston, would be one of the few regions in the country where McGovern would actually perform more strongly than Carter in absolute terms. Suffolk County, where Boston is located, had voted for George McGovern in 1972 by a landslide of 66% versus Richard Nixon's 33%, but in 1976, Carter would only win the county with 61% versus Gerald Ford's 35%. Nevertheless, Dukes County, home to Martha's Vineyard, cast only its second-ever Democratic presidential vote, after 1964. This is also the state with the most electoral votes that was decided by double digits. In the 1960s, for 3 elections straight beginning with John F. Kennedy in 1960, Democrats had won landslides of over 60% of the vote, with Republicans failing to break 40%. Even in the GOP landslide of 1972, Massachusetts had clocked in as a whopping 32% more Democratic than the nation. Thus overall the results of 1976 indicated a slight Republican rebound in the state that would continue into the 1980s. As of 2022, this is the last time that the towns of Chilmark and Conway voted Republican. (en) |
| dbo:country | dbr:Massachusetts |
| dbo:startDate | 1976-11-02 (xsd:date) |
| dbo:thumbnail | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Carter_cropped.png?width=300 |
| dbo:title | 1976 United States presidential election in Massachusetts (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageID | 40099074 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength | 9541 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID | 1120806737 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink | dbr:American_Party_(1969) dbr:President_of_the_United_States dbr:Berkshire_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Bob_Dole dbr:Boston dbr:Democratic_Party_(United_States) dbr:Peter_Camejo dbr:Republican_Party_(United_States) dbr:Richard_Nixon dbr:United_States_Electoral_College dbr:United_States_Senate dbr:United_States_presidential_elections_in_Massachusetts dbr:Vice_President_of_the_United_States dbr:Dukes_County,_Massachusetts dbr:List_of_governors_of_Georgia dbr:1928_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts dbr:1976_United_States_presidential_election dbr:Conway,_Massachusetts dbr:Massachusetts dbr:Franklin_County,_Massachusetts dbr:George_McGovern dbr:Georgia_(U.S._state) dbr:Gerald_Ford dbr:Minnesota dbr:Thomas_J._Anderson dbr:1960_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts dbr:1964_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts dbr:1972_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts dbc:United_States_presidential_elections_in_Massachusetts dbc:1976_Massachusetts_elections dbc:1976_United_States_presidential_election_by_state dbr:Lyndon_LaRouche dbr:Suffolk_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Percentage_point dbr:Plymouth_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Bristol_County,_Massachusetts dbr:U.S._Labor_Party dbr:Walter_Mondale dbr:Washington,_D.C. dbr:Essex_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Eugene_McCarthy dbr:Barnstable_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Norfolk_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Hampden_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Hampshire_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Chilmark,_Massachusetts dbr:Jimmy_Carter dbr:John_F._Kennedy dbr:Kansas dbr:Martha's_Vineyard dbr:Socialist_Workers_Party_(United_States) dbr:Incumbent dbr:Independent_politician dbr:Michigan dbr:Middlesex_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Nantucket dbr:Worcester_County,_Massachusetts dbr:Write-in_candidate dbr:Independent_(politician) dbr:File:Massachusetts_presidential_election,_1976.png |
| dbp:afterElection | dbr:Jimmy_Carter |
| dbp:afterParty | Democratic Party (en) |
| dbp:beforeElection | dbr:Gerald_Ford |
| dbp:beforeParty | Republican Party (en) |
| dbp:country | Massachusetts (en) |
| dbp:electionDate | 1976-11-02 (xsd:date) |
| dbp:electionName | 1976 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:electoralVote | 0 (xsd:integer) 14 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:homeState | dbr:Georgia_(U.S._state) dbr:Michigan |
| dbp:image | Gerald Ford presidential portrait .jpg (en) Jimmy Carter cropped.png (en) |
| dbp:imageSize | x200px (en) |
| dbp:mapCaption | County Results Carter Ford (en) |
| dbp:mapImage | Massachusetts Presidential Election Results 1976.svg (en) |
| dbp:mapSize | 401 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:nextElection | 1980 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:nextYear | 1980 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:nominee | dbr:Gerald_Ford Jimmy Carter (en) |
| dbp:ongoing | no (en) |
| dbp:party | Democratic Party (en) Republican Party (en) |
| dbp:percentage | 56.11 (dbd:perCent) 40.44 (dbd:perCent) |
| dbp:popularVote | 1030276 (xsd:integer) 1429475 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:previousElection | 1972 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:previousYear | 1972 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:runningMate | dbr:Bob_Dole Walter Mondale (en) |
| dbp:title | President (en) |
| dbp:turnout | 68.900000 (xsd:double) |
| dbp:type | presidential (en) |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate | dbt:Col-2 dbt:Col-end dbt:Col-start dbt:Increase dbt:Infobox_election dbt:Legend dbt:Main dbt:Reflist dbt:Short_description dbt:ElectionsMA dbt:Massachusetts_elections dbt:United_States_elections dbt:State_results_of_the_1976_U.S._presidential_election |
| dct:subject | dbc:United_States_presidential_elections_in_Massachusetts dbc:1976_Massachusetts_elections dbc:1976_United_States_presidential_election_by_state |
| rdf:type | owl:Thing schema:Event dul:Event dbo:SocietalEvent wikidata:Q1656682 wikidata:Q40231 dbo:Election dbo:Event |
| rdfs:comment | The 1976 United States presidential election in Massachusetts took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election, which was held throughout all 50 states and D.C. Voters chose 14 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Massachusetts voted for the Democratic nominee, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter, over incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford of Michigan. Carter's running mate was Senator Walter Mondale of Minnesota, while Ford ran with Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. (en) |
| rdfs:label | 1976 United States presidential election in Massachusetts (en) |
| owl:sameAs | wikidata:1976 United States presidential election in Massachusetts https://global.dbpedia.org/id/fGkx |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom | wikipedia-en:1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts?oldid=1120806737&ns=0 |
| foaf:depiction | wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Gerald_Ford_presidential_portrait_(cropped_2).jpg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Massachusetts_Presidential_Election_Results_1976.svg wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Massachusetts_presidential_election,_1976.png wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/Jimmy_Carter_cropped.png |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf | wikipedia-en:1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts |
| is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of | dbr:United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts,_1976 dbr:1976_US_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of | dbr:List_of_elections_in_Massachusetts dbr:United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts,_1976 dbr:United_States_presidential_elections_in_Massachusetts dbr:1976_United_States_presidential_election dbr:1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Maine dbr:1980_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts dbr:1972_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts dbr:Libertarian_Association_of_Massachusetts dbr:1976_US_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of | wikipedia-en:1976_United_States_presidential_election_in_Massachusetts |
