Election Name: | 1976 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary |
Country: | New Hampshire |
Flag Year: | 1931 |
Type: | presidential |
Ongoing: | no |
Previous Election: | 1972 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary |
Previous Year: | 1972 |
Next Election: | 1980 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary |
Next Year: | 1980 |
Image1: | Gerald Ford presidential portrait (cropped 2).jpg |
Candidate1: | Gerald Ford |
Color1: | 4997d0ff |
Home State1: | Michigan |
Popular Vote1: | 55,156 |
Percentage1: | 50.1% |
Candidate2: | Ronald Reagan |
Home State2: | California |
Popular Vote2: | 53,569 |
Percentage2: | 48.6% |
Colour2: | e35e5eff |
Delegate Count1: | 18 |
Delegate Count2: | 3 |
The 1976 New Hampshire Republican presidential primary was held on February 24, 1976, in New Hampshire as one of the Republican Party's statewide nomination contests ahead of the 1976 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Gerald Ford eked out a razor-thin victory over the more conservative Ronald Reagan by just 1,587 votes, or 1.5 percentage points.[1] [2] Ford would go on to win the nomination at the contested 1976 Republican convention,[3] but lost to Jimmy Carter in the general election.