Who won Arizona in the 1976 presidential election?

Ford (Republican) carried Arizona in 1976, winning its 6 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Arizona have in 1976?

Arizona cast 6 electoral votes in the 1976 presidential election.

Did Arizona vote for the national winner in 1976?

No. Arizona backed Ford, while Jimmy Carter won the presidency nationally.

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1976

Arizona: Ford carries 6 EV.

Arizona cast its 6 electoral votes for Ford (Republican). National winner: Jimmy Carter (Democratic) — Arizona voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Arizona, 1976

In 1976, Arizona awarded its 6 electoral votes to Ford of the Republican party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Jimmy Carter (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Arizona among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 7th consecutive election in which Arizona backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1952. Arizona did not move alone — neighboring California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico broke the same way in 1976. Across the 29 presidential elections Arizona has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (18 times). The vote fell within the Cold War Realignment — Nixon, Reagan, and the Republican South.

In the national count, Jimmy Carter took 297 of the 538 electoral votes, against Gerald Ford's 240. Jimmy Carter led the national popular vote with 50.08% of the ballots cast.

The 1976 national map

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