Who won Idaho in the 1976 presidential election?

Ford (Republican) carried Idaho in 1976, winning its 4 electoral votes.

How many electoral votes did Idaho have in 1976?

Idaho cast 4 electoral votes in the 1976 presidential election.

Did Idaho vote for the national winner in 1976?

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

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1976

Idaho: Ford carries 4 EV.

Idaho cast its 4 electoral votes for Ford (Republican). National winner: Jimmy Carter (Democratic) — Idaho voted against the national winner this cycle.

What happened in Idaho, 1976

In 1976, Idaho awarded its 4 electoral votes to Ford of the Republican party. Nationally the result broke the other way — Jimmy Carter (Democratic) won the presidency, leaving Idaho among the states he did not carry.

It marked the 3rd consecutive election in which Idaho backed the Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1968. Idaho did not move alone — neighboring Washington, Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, and Montana broke the same way in 1976. Across the 34 presidential elections Idaho has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Republican party (23 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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