See main article: 1976 United States presidential election.
| Election Name: | 1976 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Country: | Montana |
| Flag Year: | 1905 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1972 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Previous Year: | 1972 |
| Next Election: | 1980 United States presidential election in Montana |
| Next Year: | 1980 |
| Image1: | Gerald Ford presidential portrait (cropped 2).jpg |
| Nominee1: | Gerald Ford |
| Party1: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Home State1: | Michigan |
| Running Mate1: | Bob Dole |
| Electoral Vote1: | 4 |
| Popular Vote1: | 173,703 |
| Percentage1: | 52.84% |
| Nominee2: | Jimmy Carter |
| Party2: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Home State2: | Georgia |
| Running Mate2: | Walter Mondale |
| Electoral Vote2: | 0 |
| Popular Vote2: | 149,259 |
| Percentage2: | 45.40% |
| Map Size: | 350px |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Gerald Ford |
| Before Party: | Republican Party (United States) |
| After Election: | Jimmy Carter |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
The 1976 United States presidential election in Montana was part of the 1976 United States presidential election, which took place on November 2, 1976. Voters chose four representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Montana voted for the Republican nominee, President Gerald Ford, over the Democratic nominee, former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter. Ford won Montana by a margin of 7.44%., this is the last election in which McCone County and Wibaux County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.[1] Carter became the first ever Democrat to win the White House without carrying Daniels, Judith Basin, Pondera, Teton, or Toole Counties, as well as the first to do so without carrying Cascade County since Grover Cleveland in 1892, and the first to do so without carrying Chouteau or Valley Counties since Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
| 1976 United States presidential election in Montana[2] | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | Percentage | Electoral votes | ||
| Republican | Gerald Ford (incumbent) | 173,703 | 52.84% | 4 | ||
| Democratic | Jimmy Carter | 149,259 | 45.40% | 0 | ||
| Americanist | Thomas J. Anderson | 5,772 | 1.76% | 0 | ||
| Totals | 328,734 | 100.00% | 4 | |||
| County | Gerald Ford Republican | Jimmy Carter Democratic | Thomas Anderson Americanist | Margin | Total votes cast | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| % | % | % | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Beaverhead | 2,461 | 69.46% | 1,013 | 28.59% | 69 | 1.95% | 1,448 | 40.87% | 3,543 | ||||||||||
| Big Horn | 1,615 | 44.49% | 1,962 | 54.05% | 53 | 1.46% | -347 | -9.56% | 3,630 | ||||||||||
| Blaine | 1,349 | 49.25% | 1,356 | 49.51% | 34 | 1.24% | -7 | -0.26% | 2,739 | ||||||||||
| Broadwater | 820 | 59.04% | 557 | 40.10% | 12 | 0.86% | 263 | 18.94% | 1,389 | ||||||||||
| Carbon | 2,121 | 52.44% | 1,853 | 45.81% | 71 | 1.76% | 268 | 6.63% | 4,045 | ||||||||||
| Carter | 558 | 57.41% | 344 | 35.39% | 70 | 7.20% | 214 | 22.02% | 972 | ||||||||||
| Cascade | 15,289 | 50.11% | 14,678 | 48.11% | 544 | 1.78% | 611 | 2.00% | 30,511 | ||||||||||
| Chouteau | 1,814 | 52.35% | 1,568 | 45.25% | 83 | 2.40% | 246 | 7.10% | 3,465 | ||||||||||
| Custer | 3,120 | 55.25% | 2,425 | 42.94% | 102 | 1.81% | 695 | 12.31% | 5,647 | ||||||||||
| Daniels | 816 | 49.79% | 797 | 48.63% | 26 | 1.59% | 19 | 1.16% | 1,639 | ||||||||||
| Dawson | 2,639 | 53.21% | 2,201 | 44.38% | 120 | 2.42% | 438 | 8.83% | 4,960 | ||||||||||
| Deer Lodge | 2,197 | 35.57% | 3,859 | 62.48% | 120 | 1.94% | -1,662 | -26.91% | 6,176 | ||||||||||
| Fallon | 934 | 51.98% | 847 | 47.13% | 16 | 0.89% | 87 | 4.85% | 1,797 | ||||||||||
| Fergus | 3,556 | 57.73% | 2,470 | 40.10% | 134 | 2.18% | 1,086 | 17.63% | 6,160 | ||||||||||
| Flathead | 10,494 | 55.69% | 7,827 | 41.53% | 524 | 2.78% | 2,667 | 14.16% | 18,845 | ||||||||||
| Gallatin | 11,062 | 63.36% | 6,215 | 35.60% | 183 | 1.05% | 4,847 | 27.76% | 17,460 | ||||||||||
| Garfield | 625 | 67.79% | 273 | 29.61% | 24 | 2.60% | 352 | 38.18% | 922 | ||||||||||
| Glacier | 1,892 | 50.81% | 1,755 | 47.13% | 77 | 2.07% | 137 | 3.68% | 3,724 | ||||||||||
| Golden Valley | 302 | 53.08% | 255 | 44.82% | 12 | 2.11% | 47 | 8.26% | 569 | ||||||||||
| Granite | 746 | 58.65% | 509 | 40.02% | 17 | 1.34% | 237 | 18.63% | 1,272 | ||||||||||
| Hill | 3,274 | 45.10% | 3,878 | 53.42% | 108 | 1.49% | -604 | -8.32% | 7,260 | ||||||||||
| Jefferson | 1,387 | 52.26% | 1,210 | 45.59% | 57 | 2.15% | 177 | 6.67% | 2,654 | ||||||||||
| Judith Basin | 809 | 50.12% | 772 | 47.83% | 33 | 2.04% | 37 | 2.29% | 1,614 | ||||||||||
| Lake | 3,809 | 52.83% | 3,253 | 45.12% | 148 | 2.05% | 556 | 7.71% | 7,210 | ||||||||||
| Lewis and Clark | 10,155 | 54.84% | 8,118 | 43.84% | 244 | 1.32% | 2,037 | 11.00% | 18,517 | ||||||||||
| Liberty | 638 | 54.86% | 506 | 43.51% | 19 | 1.63% | 132 | 11.35% | 1,163 | ||||||||||
| Lincoln | 3,017 | 48.02% | 3,146 | 50.07% | 120 | 1.91% | -129 | -2.05% | 6,283 | ||||||||||
| McCone | 730 | 48.70% | 749 | 49.97% | 20 | 1.33% | -19 | -1.27% | 1,499 | ||||||||||
| Madison | 1,688 | 64.67% | 870 | 33.33% | 52 | 1.99% | 818 | 31.34% | 2,610 | ||||||||||
| Meagher | 565 | 60.17% | 364 | 38.76% | 10 | 1.06% | 201 | 21.41% | 939 | ||||||||||
| Mineral | 679 | 44.85% | 819 | 54.10% | 16 | 1.06% | -140 | -9.25% | 1,514 | ||||||||||
| Missoula | 16,350 | 51.36% | 15,099 | 47.43% | 388 | 1.22% | 1,251 | 3.93% | 31,837 | ||||||||||
| Musselshell | 1,117 | 54.09% | 922 | 44.65% | 26 | 1.26% | 195 | 9.44% | 2,065 | ||||||||||
| Park | 3,281 | 57.16% | 2,364 | 41.18% | 95 | 1.66% | 917 | 15.98% | 5,740 | ||||||||||
| Petroleum | 211 | 63.75% | 110 | 33.23% | 10 | 3.02% | 101 | 30.52% | 331 | ||||||||||
| Phillips | 1,347 | 54.18% | 1,117 | 44.93% | 22 | 0.88% | 230 | 9.25% | 2,486 | ||||||||||
| Pondera | 1,666 | 52.89% | 1,413 | 44.86% | 71 | 2.25% | 253 | 8.03% | 3,150 | ||||||||||
| Powder River | 683 | 55.30% | 429 | 34.74% | 123 | 9.96% | 254 | 20.56% | 1,235 | ||||||||||
| Powell | 1,610 | 54.56% | 1,302 | 44.12% | 39 | 1.32% | 308 | 10.44% | 2,951 | ||||||||||
| Prairie | 597 | 58.59% | 415 | 40.73% | 7 | 0.69% | 182 | 17.86% | 1,019 | ||||||||||
| Ravalli | 4,894 | 56.29% | 3,504 | 40.30% | 296 | 3.40% | 1,390 | 15.99% | 8,694 | ||||||||||
| Richland | 2,189 | 51.35% | 1,961 | 46.00% | 113 | 2.65% | 228 | 5.35% | 4,263 | ||||||||||
| Roosevelt | 1,822 | 46.38% | 2,061 | 52.47% | 45 | 1.15% | -239 | -6.09% | 3,928 | ||||||||||
| Rosebud | 1,538 | 51.16% | 1,413 | 47.01% | 55 | 1.83% | 125 | 4.15% | 3,006 | ||||||||||
| Sanders | 1,738 | 48.60% | 1,725 | 48.24% | 113 | 3.16% | 13 | 0.36% | 3,576 | ||||||||||
| Sheridan | 1,114 | 41.05% | 1,560 | 57.48% | 40 | 1.47% | -446 | -16.43% | 2,714 | ||||||||||
| Silver Bow | 7,506 | 39.28% | 11,377 | 59.53% | 227 | 1.19% | -3,871 | -20.25% | 19,110 | ||||||||||
| Stillwater | 1,446 | 54.88% | 1,143 | 43.38% | 46 | 1.75% | 303 | 11.50% | 2,635 | ||||||||||
| Sweet Grass | 1,135 | 68.41% | 502 | 30.26% | 22 | 1.33% | 633 | 38.15% | 1,659 | ||||||||||
| Teton | 1,730 | 51.72% | 1,506 | 45.02% | 109 | 3.26% | 224 | 6.70% | 3,345 | ||||||||||
| Toole | 1,469 | 56.43% | 1,080 | 41.49% | 54 | 2.07% | 389 | 14.94% | 2,603 | ||||||||||
| Treasure | 315 | 55.85% | 239 | 42.38% | 10 | 1.77% | 76 | 13.47% | 564 | ||||||||||
| Valley | 2,520 | 50.82% | 2,352 | 47.43% | 87 | 1.75% | 168 | 3.39% | 4,959 | ||||||||||
| Wheatland | 755 | 57.20% | 535 | 40.53% | 30 | 2.27% | 220 | 16.67% | 1,320 | ||||||||||
| Wibaux | 308 | 44.57% | 352 | 50.94% | 31 | 4.49% | -44 | -6.37% | 691 | ||||||||||
| Yellowstone | 25,201 | 57.11% | 18,329 | 41.54% | 595 | 1.35% | 6,872 | 15.57% | 44,125 | ||||||||||
| Totals | 173,703 | 52.84% | 149,259 | 45.40% | 5,772 | 1.76% | 24,444 | 7.44% | 328,734 | ||||||||||