1976 United States presidential election in Indiana

Main article: 1976 United States presidential election
1976 United States presidential election in Indiana
November 2, 1976
Turnout60.1%[1] 0.7 pp
 
Nominee Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter
Party Republican Democratic
Home state Michigan Georgia
Running mate Bob Dole Walter Mondale
Electoral vote 13 0
Popular vote 1,183,958 1,014,714
Percentage 53.32% 45.70%
County results
President before election

Gerald Ford
Republican

Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

A presidential election was held in Indiana on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. The Republican ticket of the incumbent president of the United States Gerald Ford and the junior U.S. senator from Kansas Bob Dole defeated the Democratic ticket of the former governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter and the junior U.S. senator from Minnesota Walter Mondale. Carter defeated Ford in the national election with 297 electoral votes.[2]

Carter won the Democratic primary by a wide margin over his rivals. The closely-contested Republican primary saw the former governor of California Ronald Reagan defeat Ford in a narrow upset. Ford nevertheless went on to win his party's nomination at the 1976 Republican National Convention. Both major candidates campaigned in Indiana during the fall, with polls showing between 15 and 20 percent of the state's voters still undecided in the final weeks of the campaign.[3] In the general election, Ford carried most of the counties comprising Northern and Central Indiana, while Carter did well in Southern Indiana counties in the Ohio Valley.[4]

Primary elections

Republican Party

Main article: 1976 Republican Party presidential primaries
Indiana Republican primary, May 4, 1976[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Republican Ronald Reagan 323,779 51.29
Republican Gerald Ford 307,513 48.71
Total votes 631,292 100.00

Democratic Party

Main article: 1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Indiana Democratic primary, May 4, 1976[5]
Party Candidate Votes %
Democratic Jimmy Carter 417,480 67.95
Democratic George Wallace 93,121 15.16
Democratic Henry M. Jackson (withdrawn) 72,080 11.73
Democratic Ellen McCormack 31,708 5.16
Total votes 614,389 100.00

General election

Statistics

Carter carried Vigo County, Indiana, a national bellwether that supported the national winner in all but two presidential elections during the twentieth century.[6] Carter's margin in Vigo County (2.3 percentage points[7]) closely mirrored his national margin over Ford.[8]

As of 2024, this is the most recent presidential election in which the Democratic ticket carried Dearborn, Dubois, Martin, Ohio, and Owen counties.[9] This was the last election until 2024 in which St. Joseph County, Indiana, did not support the national popular vote winner.[10]

Results

1976 United States presidential election in Indiana[11]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
Republican Gerald Ford
Bob Dole 		1,183,958 53.32 12.79
Democratic Jimmy Carter
Walter Mondale 		1,014,714 45.70 12.36
American Thomas J. Anderson
Rufus Shackleford 		14,048 0.63 0.63
Socialist Workers Peter Camejo
Willie Mae Reid 		5,695 0.26
U.S. Labor Lyndon LaRouche
Ronald W. Evans 		1,947 0.09 0.09
Total votes 2,220,362 100.00

Results by county

1976 United States presidential election in Indiana by county[11]
County Gerald Ford
Republican 		Jimmy Carter
Democratic 		Others Margin Total
Votes % Votes % Votes % Votes %
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 19.52% 5,234
Blackford 2,886 47.16% 3,174 51.86% 60 0.98% -288 -4.70% 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 1.74% 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 10.28% 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 -1.36% 12,595
Decatur 5,555 55.63% 4,365 43.72% 65 0.65% 1,190 11.91% 9,985
DeKalb 7,860 55.17% 6,151 43.18% 235 1.65% 1,709 11.99% 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 4.71% 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 46.63% 29,958
Hancock 10,072 61.31% 6,191 37.69% 164 1.00% 3,881 23.62% 16,427
Harrison 4,911 45.90% 5,685 53.14% 103 0.96% -774 -7.24% 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 13.73% 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 -2.72% 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 15.38% 6,772
Lake 90,119 42.36% 120,700 56.74% 1,922 0.90% -30,581 -14.38% 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 13.23% 15,155
Monroe 18,938 53.06% 16,609 46.53% 148 0.41% 2,329 6.53% 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 17.66% 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 10.80% 7,144
Perry 4,088 41.95% 5,620 57.66% 38 0.39% -1,532 -15.71% 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 -4.31% 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 4.18% 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 19.73% 14,340
Warren 2,377 55.13% 1,906 44.20% 29 0.67% 471 10.93% 4,312
Warrick 7,200 47.69% 7,804 51.70% 92 0.61% -604 -4.01% 15,096
Washington 3,794 45.61% 4,409 53.01% 115 1.38% -615 -7.40% 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 10.57% 12,441
TOTAL 1,183,958 53.32% 1,014,714 45.70% 21,690 0.98% 169,244 7.62% 2,220,362

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Results by congressional district

1976 United States presidential election in Indiana by congressional district[12]
District Ford Carter Representative
1st 38.7% 61.3% Adam Benjamin Jr.
2nd 61.4% 38.6% Floyd Fithian
3rd 53.9% 46.1% John Brademas
4th 59.7% 40.3% Dan Quayle
5th 57.2% 42.8% Elwood Hillis
6th 58.5% 41.5% David W. Evans
7th 52.6% 47.4% John T. Myers
8th 50.1% 49.9% David L. Cornwell
9th 51.0% 49.0% Lee H. Hamilton
10th 55.0% 45.0% Philip Sharp
11th 54.6% 45.4% Andrew Jacobs Jr.

Hillary Rodham's involvement

Hillary Rodham (m. Clinton) was a state organizer for the Carter campaign in Indiana.[13] She subsequently served as first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, as U.S. senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, and as U.S. secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. Carter would recall Clinton's time as a campaign worker in Indiana during a speech supporting her candidacy in the 2016 United States presidential election. "During my 1976 presidential run, a young woman moved to Indianapolis to help turn out the Indiana vote for me," he said. "Forty years later, I will proudly cast my vote for that same woman to be the next President of the United States."[14]

See also

References

  1. ^ Madison 1986, p. 330.
  2. ^ Congressional Quarterly 1985, pp. 364, 311.
  3. ^ Stoner 2017, pp. 424, 418, 449.
  4. ^ Menendez 2009, pp. 191–92.
  5. ^ a b McGillivray & Scammon 1994, p. 895.
  6. ^ Menendez 2009, pp. 188, 190, 192.
  7. ^ Conrad 1976, p. 38.
  8. ^ Congressional Quarterly 1985, p. 364.
  9. ^ Sullivan 2016.
  10. ^ Menendez 2009, p. 192.
  11. ^ a b Conrad 1976, pp. 37–38.
  12. ^ Park-Egan n.d.
  13. ^ Groppe, Maureen (October 7, 2015). "'Indianoplace'? That's What Hillary Clinton Called Us". Indianapolis Star.
  14. ^ Sheinin, Aaron Gould (August 30, 2016). "Jimmy Carter Makes Fund Raising Plea for Hillary Clinton". Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Archived from the original on August 31, 2016.

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