1976 United States presidential election in Arkansas
November 2, 1976
 
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%
County Results
President before election

Gerald Ford
Republican

 Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

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]

Campaign

58% of white voters supported Carter while 42% supported Ford.[2][3]

This is the last election in which Searcy County and Crawford County voted for the Democratic candidate.[4]

Carter was the first Democratic presidential candidate to win the counties of Chicot, Conway, Johnson, Lee, Phillips and Pulaski since Hubert Humphrey in 1968, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland, Craighead, Crawford, Crittenden, Cross, Dallas, Desha, Faulkner, Franklin, Fulton, Garland, Grant, Greene, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Lincoln, Little River, Logan, Lonoke, Madison, Marion, Miller, Mississippi, Monroe, Montgomery, Nevada, Newton, Ouachita, Perry, Pike, Poinsett, Polk, Pope, Prairie, Randolph, Saline, Scott, Sevier, Sharp, St. Francis, Stone, Van Buren, Washington, White, Woodruff and Yell since Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, Arkansas, Ashley, Columbia, Drew, Howard and Union since John F. Kennedy in 1960, and Carroll and Searcy since Harry S. Truman in 1948.

Results

1976 United States presidential election in Arkansas[1]
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

County James Earl Carter
Democratic		 Gerald Rudolph Ford
Republican		 Various candidates
Write-ins		 Margin Total votes cast
#  % #  % #  % #  %
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 15.29% 9,347
Bradley 3,567 75.88% 1,134 24.12% 2,433 51.75% 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 56.91% 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 38.03% 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 37.30% 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 56.77% 4,844
Greene 7,495 73.54% 2,690 26.39% 7 0.07% 4,805 47.14% 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 34.13% 4,782
Independence 7,116 71.17% 2,878 28.79% 4 0.04% 4,238 42.39% 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 22.97% 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 28.98% 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 7.81% 5,428
Marion 2,979 59.30% 2,045 40.70% 934 18.59% 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 39.06% 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 -5.69% 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 2.09% 16,182
Van Buren 4,004 71.14% 1,624 28.86% 2,380 42.29% 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 41.17% 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 49.93% 7,717
Totals499,61464.94%268,75334.93%1,0290.13%230,86130.01%769,396

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas; 1976 Presidential General Election Results – Arkansas
  2. ↑ Black & Black 1992, p. 295.
  3. ↑ Black & Black 1992, p. 335.
  4. ↑ Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016

Works cited

  • Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.
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