1976 United States presidential election in Indiana
The 1976 United States presidential election in Indiana was held on November 2, 1976. Incumbent President Gerald Ford won the state of Indiana with 53% of the vote, carrying the state's 13 electoral votes.[1] He defeated Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter in Indiana by a margin of 7.62 points.
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Analysis
Ford won Indiana by a comfortable margin, of 7.62%, which made the state almost 10% more Republican than the nation-at-large. Carter did, however, make substantial headway in Indiana, significantly improving from George McGovern's 1972 performance in the state. Ford did well throughout most parts of the state. Carter managed to keep Ford's victory in Indiana under ten points by winning most of Southern Indiana. Vigo County home to Terre Haute, is a bellwether county that has gotten every presidential election right, except twice, since 1892. This election was no exception. Carter won Vigo County, and the presidency.
As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which Dearborn County, Dubois County, Martin County, Ohio County, and Owen County voted for a Democratic Presidential candidate,[2] and the last one in which St. Joseph County did not vote for the national popular vote winner. This is also the last time that Indiana picked a different candidate than North Carolina.
Hillary Clinton’s role in the Carter campaign
One of the Carter campaign's state organizers in Indiana was Hillary Rodham.[3] Rodham (who would later adopt her husband's surname of Clinton) would go on to serve as a First Lady, Senator, and Secretary of State. Forty years later, during her turn as the Democratic nominee for president, Carter gave a speech in support of her candidacy saying, "During my 1976 presidential run, a young woman moved to Indianapolis to help turn out the Indiana vote for me. Forty years later, I will proudly cast my vote for that same woman to be the next President of the United States."[4]
Results
| Presidential candidate | Party | Home state | Popular vote | Electoral vote |
Running mate | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Count | Percentage | Vice-presidential candidate | Home state | Electoral vote | ||||
| Gerald Ford | Republican | Michigan | 1,183,958 | 53.32% | 13 | Bob Dole | Kansas | 13 |
| Jimmy Carter | Democrat | Georgia | 1,014,714 | 45.70% | 0 | Walter Mondale | Minnesota | 0 |
| Thomas J. Anderson | American | Tennessee | 14,048 | 0.63% | 0 | Rufus Shackelford | Florida | 0 |
| Earle Harold Munn | Prohibition | Michigan | 4,616 | 0.22% | 0 | Rolland Fisher | Kansas | 0 |
| Peter Camejo | Socialist Workers | California | 5,695 | 0.06% | 0 | Willie Mae Reid | Illinois | 0 |
| Lyndon LaRouche | U.S. Labor | New York | 1,947 | 0.09% | 0 | R. Wayne Evans | — | 0 |
| Total | 2,220,362 | 100% | 13 | 13 | ||||
| Needed to win | 270 | 270 | ||||||
Results by county
| County | Gerald Rudolph Ford Republican |
James Earl Carter Democratic |
Various candidates Other parties |
Margin | Total votes cast | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | % | # | % | # | % | # | % | ||
| Adams | 6,280 | 55.55% | 4,908 | 43.41% | 118 | 1.04% | 1,372 | 12.14% | 11,306 |
| Allen | 71,321 | 60.56% | 44,744 | 37.99% | 1,704 | 1.45% | 26,577 | 22.57% | 117,769 |
| Bartholomew | 14,771 | 56.41% | 11,203 | 42.78% | 213 | 0.81% | 3,568 | 13.63% | 26,187 |
| Benton | 3,093 | 59.09% | 2,071 | 39.57% | 70 | 1.34% | 1,022 | 19.53% | 5,234 |
| Blackford | 2,886 | 47.16% | 3,174 | 51.86% | 60 | 0.98% | -288 | -4.71% | 6,120 |
| Boone | 9,214 | 61.48% | 5,686 | 37.94% | 86 | 0.57% | 3,528 | 23.54% | 14,986 |
| Brown | 2,466 | 50.29% | 2,381 | 48.55% | 57 | 1.16% | 85 | 1.73% | 4,904 |
| Carroll | 4,797 | 56.48% | 3,606 | 42.46% | 90 | 1.06% | 1,191 | 14.02% | 8,493 |
| Cass | 10,342 | 56.73% | 7,610 | 41.74% | 279 | 1.53% | 2,732 | 14.99% | 18,231 |
| Clark | 12,732 | 42.82% | 16,670 | 56.07% | 329 | 1.11% | -3,938 | -13.25% | 29,731 |
| Clay | 5,674 | 50.37% | 5,433 | 48.23% | 158 | 1.40% | 241 | 2.14% | 11,265 |
| Clinton | 8,199 | 54.80% | 6,662 | 44.52% | 102 | 0.68% | 1,537 | 10.27% | 14,963 |
| Crawford | 2,181 | 44.08% | 2,721 | 54.99% | 46 | 0.93% | -540 | -10.91% | 4,948 |
| Daviess | 6,829 | 57.69% | 4,952 | 41.83% | 57 | 0.48% | 1,877 | 15.86% | 11,838 |
| Dearborn | 6,176 | 49.04% | 6,348 | 50.40% | 71 | 0.56% | -172 | -1.37% | 12,595 |
| Decatur | 5,555 | 55.63% | 4,365 | 43.72% | 65 | 0.65% | 1,190 | 11.92% | 9,985 |
| DeKalb | 7,860 | 55.17% | 6,151 | 43.18% | 235 | 1.65% | 1,709 | 12.00% | 14,246 |
| Delaware | 26,417 | 50.72% | 25,151 | 48.29% | 519 | 1.00% | 1,266 | 2.43% | 52,087 |
| Dubois | 6,383 | 45.97% | 7,385 | 53.19% | 116 | 0.84% | -1,002 | -7.22% | 13,884 |
| Elkhart | 27,291 | 60.07% | 17,581 | 38.70% | 557 | 1.23% | 9,710 | 21.37% | 45,429 |
| Fayette | 5,704 | 50.53% | 5,519 | 48.89% | 65 | 0.58% | 185 | 1.64% | 11,288 |
| Floyd | 11,259 | 46.42% | 12,744 | 52.54% | 252 | 1.04% | -1,485 | -6.12% | 24,255 |
| Fountain | 4,903 | 54.16% | 4,089 | 45.17% | 60 | 0.66% | 814 | 8.99% | 9,052 |
| Franklin | 3,557 | 51.96% | 3,234 | 47.25% | 54 | 0.79% | 323 | 4.72% | 6,845 |
| Fulton | 5,083 | 58.41% | 3,488 | 40.08% | 132 | 1.52% | 1,595 | 18.33% | 8,703 |
| Gibson | 7,105 | 45.55% | 8,430 | 54.04% | 64 | 0.41% | -1,325 | -8.49% | 15,599 |
| Grant | 16,847 | 55.14% | 13,468 | 44.08% | 239 | 0.78% | 3,379 | 11.06% | 30,554 |
| Greene | 6,442 | 46.54% | 7,263 | 52.47% | 138 | 1.00% | -821 | -5.93% | 13,843 |
| Hamilton | 21,828 | 72.86% | 7,857 | 26.23% | 273 | 0.91% | 13,971 | 46.64% | 29,958 |
| Hancock | 10,072 | 61.31% | 6,191 | 37.69% | 164 | 1.00% | 3,881 | 23.63% | 16,427 |
| Harrison | 4,911 | 45.90% | 5,685 | 53.14% | 103 | 0.96% | -774 | -7.23% | 10,699 |
| Hendricks | 16,725 | 64.07% | 9,066 | 34.73% | 313 | 1.20% | 7,659 | 29.34% | 26,104 |
| Henry | 11,620 | 53.19% | 10,137 | 46.40% | 91 | 0.42% | 1,483 | 6.79% | 21,848 |
| Howard | 19,571 | 56.48% | 14,815 | 42.75% | 267 | 0.77% | 4,756 | 13.72% | 34,653 |
| Huntington | 9,182 | 57.78% | 6,515 | 41.00% | 193 | 1.21% | 2,667 | 16.78% | 15,890 |
| Jackson | 7,615 | 49.58% | 7,610 | 49.55% | 133 | 0.87% | 5 | 0.03% | 15,358 |
| Jasper | 5,398 | 60.76% | 3,286 | 36.99% | 200 | 2.25% | 2,112 | 23.77% | 8,884 |
| Jay | 4,606 | 52.24% | 4,124 | 46.77% | 87 | 0.99% | 482 | 5.47% | 8,817 |
| Jefferson | 5,573 | 46.94% | 6,139 | 51.71% | 161 | 1.36% | -566 | -4.77% | 11,873 |
| Jennings | 4,505 | 49.99% | 4,430 | 49.16% | 77 | 0.85% | 75 | 0.83% | 9,012 |
| Johnson | 16,414 | 61.36% | 10,075 | 37.66% | 260 | 0.97% | 6,339 | 23.70% | 26,749 |
| Knox | 9,100 | 48.25% | 9,612 | 50.97% | 148 | 0.78% | -512 | -2.71% | 18,860 |
| Kosciusko | 14,505 | 65.56% | 7,328 | 33.12% | 291 | 1.32% | 7,177 | 32.44% | 22,124 |
| LaGrange | 3,876 | 57.24% | 2,835 | 41.86% | 61 | 0.90% | 1,041 | 15.37% | 6,772 |
| Lake | 90,119 | 42.36% | 120,700 | 56.74% | 1,922 | 0.90% | -30,581 | -14.37% | 212,741 |
| LaPorte | 21,989 | 54.09% | 18,217 | 44.81% | 449 | 1.10% | 3,772 | 9.28% | 40,655 |
| Lawrence | 9,278 | 53.20% | 7,908 | 45.34% | 254 | 1.46% | 1,370 | 7.86% | 17,440 |
| Madison | 32,437 | 51.63% | 29,811 | 47.45% | 572 | 0.91% | 2,626 | 4.18% | 62,820 |
| Marion | 177,767 | 54.60% | 145,274 | 44.62% | 2,535 | 0.78% | 32,493 | 9.98% | 325,576 |
| Marshall | 9,707 | 59.16% | 6,424 | 39.15% | 277 | 1.69% | 3,283 | 20.01% | 16,408 |
| Martin | 2,702 | 48.55% | 2,827 | 50.80% | 36 | 0.65% | -125 | -2.25% | 5,565 |
| Miami | 8,263 | 54.52% | 6,257 | 41.29% | 635 | 4.19% | 2,006 | 13.24% | 15,155 |
| Monroe | 18,938 | 53.06% | 16,609 | 46.53% | 148 | 0.41% | 2,329 | 6.52% | 35,695 |
| Montgomery | 9,509 | 63.01% | 5,320 | 35.25% | 263 | 1.74% | 4,189 | 27.76% | 15,092 |
| Morgan | 10,983 | 59.99% | 7,181 | 39.22% | 145 | 0.79% | 3,802 | 20.77% | 18,309 |
| Newton | 3,204 | 58.44% | 2,236 | 40.78% | 43 | 0.78% | 968 | 17.65% | 5,483 |
| Noble | 6,885 | 52.91% | 5,875 | 45.15% | 253 | 1.94% | 1,010 | 7.76% | 13,013 |
| Ohio | 1,027 | 43.95% | 1,300 | 55.63% | 10 | 0.43% | -273 | -11.68% | 2,337 |
| Orange | 4,399 | 51.90% | 4,031 | 47.56% | 46 | 0.54% | 368 | 4.34% | 8,476 |
| Owen | 2,896 | 47.83% | 3,103 | 51.25% | 56 | 0.92% | -207 | -3.42% | 6,055 |
| Parke | 3,929 | 55.00% | 3,158 | 44.20% | 57 | 0.80% | 771 | 10.79% | 7,144 |
| Perry | 4,088 | 41.95% | 5,620 | 57.66% | 38 | 0.39% | -1,532 | -15.72% | 9,746 |
| Pike | 3,138 | 44.19% | 3,938 | 55.46% | 25 | 0.35% | -800 | -11.27% | 7,101 |
| Porter | 25,489 | 59.75% | 16,468 | 38.60% | 701 | 1.64% | 9,021 | 21.15% | 42,658 |
| Posey | 5,136 | 48.97% | 5,298 | 50.51% | 54 | 0.51% | -162 | -1.54% | 10,488 |
| Pulaski | 3,586 | 54.21% | 2,813 | 42.52% | 216 | 3.27% | 773 | 11.69% | 6,615 |
| Putnam | 6,063 | 53.67% | 5,116 | 45.29% | 118 | 1.04% | 947 | 8.38% | 11,297 |
| Randolph | 6,891 | 55.93% | 5,330 | 43.26% | 99 | 0.80% | 1,561 | 12.67% | 12,320 |
| Ripley | 5,293 | 52.11% | 4,792 | 47.18% | 72 | 0.71% | 501 | 4.93% | 10,157 |
| Rush | 4,723 | 60.32% | 3,052 | 38.98% | 55 | 0.70% | 1,671 | 21.34% | 7,830 |
| Scott | 2,657 | 38.14% | 4,229 | 60.71% | 80 | 1.15% | -1,572 | -22.57% | 6,966 |
| Shelby | 8,918 | 55.22% | 7,098 | 43.95% | 134 | 0.83% | 1,820 | 11.27% | 16,150 |
| Spencer | 4,166 | 46.34% | 4,796 | 53.35% | 28 | 0.31% | -630 | -7.01% | 8,990 |
| St. Joseph | 50,358 | 50.20% | 49,156 | 49.00% | 810 | 0.81% | 1,202 | 1.20% | 100,324 |
| Starke | 4,354 | 47.12% | 4,753 | 51.43% | 134 | 1.45% | -399 | -4.32% | 9,241 |
| Steuben | 5,079 | 59.23% | 3,323 | 38.75% | 173 | 2.02% | 1,756 | 20.48% | 8,575 |
| Sullivan | 3,747 | 41.61% | 5,198 | 57.72% | 61 | 0.68% | -1,451 | -16.11% | 9,006 |
| Switzerland | 1,329 | 38.07% | 2,150 | 61.59% | 12 | 0.34% | -821 | -23.52% | 3,491 |
| Tippecanoe | 29,186 | 61.33% | 17,850 | 37.51% | 551 | 1.16% | 11,336 | 23.82% | 47,587 |
| Tipton | 4,776 | 57.35% | 3,428 | 41.16% | 124 | 1.49% | 1,348 | 16.19% | 8,328 |
| Union | 1,631 | 58.25% | 1,160 | 41.43% | 9 | 0.32% | 471 | 16.82% | 2,800 |
| Vanderburgh | 37,975 | 51.87% | 34,911 | 47.69% | 325 | 0.44% | 3,064 | 4.19% | 73,211 |
| Vermillion | 3,674 | 43.03% | 4,791 | 56.11% | 73 | 0.86% | -1,117 | -13.08% | 8,538 |
| Vigo | 23,555 | 48.46% | 24,684 | 50.78% | 371 | 0.76% | -1,129 | -2.32% | 48,610 |
| Wabash | 8,534 | 59.51% | 5,704 | 39.78% | 102 | 0.71% | 2,830 | 19.74% | 14,340 |
| Warren | 2,377 | 55.13% | 1,906 | 44.20% | 29 | 0.67% | 471 | 10.92% | 4,312 |
| Warrick | 7,200 | 47.69% | 7,804 | 51.70% | 92 | 0.61% | -604 | -4.00% | 15,096 |
| Washington | 3,794 | 45.61% | 4,409 | 53.01% | 115 | 1.38% | -615 | -7.39% | 8,318 |
| Wayne | 16,697 | 57.20% | 12,306 | 42.16% | 188 | 0.64% | 4,391 | 15.04% | 29,191 |
| Wells | 5,596 | 56.33% | 4,250 | 42.78% | 88 | 0.89% | 1,346 | 13.55% | 9,934 |
| White | 6,287 | 60.63% | 3,963 | 38.22% | 119 | 1.15% | 2,324 | 22.41% | 10,369 |
| Whitley | 6,761 | 54.34% | 5,445 | 43.77% | 235 | 1.89% | 1,316 | 10.58% | 12,441 |
| Totals | 1,183,958 | 53.32% | 1,014,714 | 45.70% | 21,690 | 0.98% | 169,244 | 7.62% | 2,220,362 |
References
- "1976 Presidential General Election Results - Indiana". Retrieved May 12, 2016.
- Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
- Groppe, Maureen (October 7, 2015). "'Indianoplace'? That's what Hillary Clinton called us". www.indystar.com. Indy Star. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
- Sheinin, Aaron Gould (August 30, 2016). "Jimmy Carter makes fund raising plea for Hillary Clinton". www.ajc.com. AJC. Retrieved December 29, 2017.
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