Who won Connecticut in the 1976 presidential election?

Ford (Republican) carried Connecticut in 1976, winning its 8 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Connecticut have in 1976?

Connecticut cast 8 electoral votes in the 1976 presidential election.

Did Connecticut vote for the national winner in 1976?

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

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1976

Connecticut: Ford carries 8 EV.

Connecticut cast its 8 electoral votes for Ford (Republican). National winner: Jimmy Carter (Democratic) — Connecticut voted against the national winner this cycle.

Connecticut in 1976

The 1976 contest saw Connecticut line up behind Ford, delivering 8 electoral votes to the Republican ticket. Nationally the result broke the other way — Jimmy Carter (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Connecticut among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Connecticut backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1972. It stood apart from its neighbors: New York, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island went the other way that year. Across the 60 presidential elections Connecticut has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (24 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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