1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska explained

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Election Name:	1976 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Country:	Nebraska
Type:	presidential
Ongoing:	no
Previous Election:	1972 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Previous Year:	1972
Next Election:	1980 United States presidential election in Nebraska
Next Year:	1980
Election Date:	November 2, 1976
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:	5
Popular Vote1:	359,705
Percentage1:	59.19%
Nominee2:	Jimmy Carter
Party2:	Democratic Party (United States)
Home State2:	Georgia
Running Mate2:	Walter Mondale
Electoral Vote2:	0
Popular Vote2:	233,692
Percentage2:	38.46%
Map Size:	400px
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 Nebraska took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Voters chose five representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Nebraska was won by incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), with 59.19% of the popular vote, against Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 38.46% of the popular vote. None of the third-party candidates amounted to a significant portion of the vote, but Eugene McCarthy (I–Minnesota) won 1.55% of Nebraska's popular vote and came third overall in the nation. Despite losing in Nebraska, Carter went on to win the national election and became the 39th president of the United States.^[1], this is the last election in which Butler County, Sherman County, and Greeley County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.^[2]

With 59.19% of the popular vote, Nebraska, where Ford was born in Omaha as Leslie Lynch King Jr. in 1913, proved to be the incumbent President’s fourth strongest state in the 1976 election after Utah, Idaho and Wyoming.^[3]

Results

Results by county

County^[4]	Gerald Ford Republican		Jimmy Carter Democratic		Eugene McCarthy Independent		Lester Maddox American		Roger MacBride Libertarian		Margin		Total votes cast
	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%		data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%	data-sort-type="number"		data-sort-type="number"	%
	Adams		7,623		59.42%		4,949		38.58%		160		1.25%		62		0.48%		35		0.27%		2,674		20.84%		12,829
	Antelope		2,488		64.01%		1,325		34.09%		48		1.23%		19		0.49%		7		0.18%		1,163		29.92%		3,887
	Arthur		193		73.66%		64		24.43%		4		1.53%		1		0.38%		0		0.00%		129		49.23%		262
	Banner		281		54.78%		210		40.94%		10		1.95%		8		1.56%		4		0.78%		71		13.84%		513
	Blaine		281		66.59%		133		31.52%		7		1.66%		1		0.24%		0		0.00%		148		35.07%		422
	Boone		2,035		59.21%		1,329		38.67%		57		1.66%		11		0.32%		5		0.15%		706		20.54%		3,437
	Box Butte		2,956		64.56%		1,516		33.11%		67		1.46%		29		0.63%		11		0.24%		1,440		31.45%		4,579
	Boyd		1,004		55.13%		792		43.49%		12		0.66%		11		0.60%		2		0.11%		212		11.64%		1,821
	Brown		1,241		67.59%		557		30.34%		23		1.25%		13		0.71%		2		0.11%		684		37.25%		1,836
	Buffalo		8,095		63.36%		4,308		33.72%		208		1.63%		116		0.91%		50		0.39%		3,787		29.64%		12,777
	Burt		2,510		63.27%		1,375		34.66%		55		1.39%		12		0.30%		15		0.38%		1,135		28.61%		3,967
	Butler		1,809		42.36%		2,337		54.72%		81		1.90%		34		0.80%		10		0.23%		-528		-12.36%		4,271
	Cass		3,807		53.31%		3,205		44.88%		90		1.26%		33		0.46%		6		0.08%		602		8.43%		7,141
	Cedar		2,415		50.74%		2,225		46.74%		73		1.53%		30		0.63%		17		0.36%		190		4.00%		4,760
	Chase		1,146		59.16%		725		37.43%		29		1.50%		14		0.72%		23		1.19%		421		21.73%		1,937
	Cherry		2,197		68.83%		906		28.38%		49		1.54%		28		0.88%		12		0.38%		1,291		40.45%		3,192
	Cheyenne		2,285		56.39%		1,665		41.09%		69		1.70%		24		0.59%		9		0.22%		620		15.30%		4,052
	Clay		2,254		60.87%		1,369		36.97%		35		0.95%		37		1.00%		8		0.22%		885		23.90%		3,703
	Colfax		2,364		57.34%		1,666		40.41%		64		1.55%		23		0.56%		6		0.15%		698		16.93%		4,123
	Cuming		3,303		69.19%		1,374		28.78%		71		1.49%		16		0.34%		10		0.21%		1,929		40.41%		4,774
	Custer		3,935		63.72%		1,985		32.15%		105		1.70%		113		1.83%		37		0.60%		1,950		31.57%		6,175
	Dakota		2,631		52.67%		2,292		45.89%		53		1.06%		11		0.22%		8		0.16%		339		6.78%		4,995
	Dawes		2,446		62.56%		1,286		32.89%		75		1.92%		91		2.33%		12		0.31%		1,160		29.67%		3,910
	Dawson		5,413		67.79%		2,395		29.99%		85		1.06%		64		0.80%		28		0.35%		3,018		37.80%		7,985
	Deuel		776		65.16%		398		33.42%		14		1.18%		3		0.25%		0		0.00%		378		31.74%		1,191
	Dixon		1,981		59.35%		1,286		38.53%		48		1.44%		14		0.42%		9		0.27%		695		20.82%		3,338
	Dodge		8,982		62.03%		5,283		36.48%		170		1.17%		28		0.19%		18		0.12%		3,699		25.55%		14,481
	Douglas		93,204		58.69%		61,877		38.97%		2,873		1.81%		501		0.32%		342		0.22%		31,327		19.72%		158,797
	Dundy		774		61.28%		457		36.18%		12		0.95%		11		0.87%		9		0.71%		317		25.10%		1,263
	Fillmore		2,098		57.15%		1,489		40.56%		43		1.17%		34		0.93%		7		0.19%		609		16.59%		3,671
	Franklin		1,170		54.09%		941		43.50%		29		1.34%		17		0.79%		6		0.28%		229		10.59%		2,163
	Frontier		994		60.80%		588		35.96%		19		1.16%		29		1.77%		5		0.31%		406		24.84%		1,635
	Furnas		1,851		60.21%		1,132		36.82%		34		1.11%		32		1.04%		25		0.81%		719		23.39%		3,074
	Gage		5,199		52.54%		4,506		45.54%		122		1.23%		56		0.57%		12		0.12%		693		7.00%		9,895
	Garden		928		63.91%		455		31.34%		35		2.41%		27		1.86%		7		0.48%		473		32.57%		1,452
	Garfield		726		64.76%		343		30.60%		13		1.16%		38		3.39%		1		0.09%		383		34.16%		1,121
	Gosper		654		64.82%		332		32.90%		12		1.19%		9		0.89%		2		0.20%		322		31.92%		1,009
	Grant		314		70.40%		116		26.01%		8		1.79%		7		1.57%		1		0.22%		198		44.39%		446
	Greeley		787		46.05%		877		51.32%		31		1.81%		10		0.59%		4		0.23%		-90		-5.27%		1,709
	Hall		10,935		62.90%		6,079		34.96%		214		1.23%		108		0.62%		50		0.29%		4,856		27.94%		17,386
	Hamilton		2,737		65.46%		1,337		31.98%		58		1.39%		36		0.86%		13		0.31%		1,400		33.48%		4,181
	Harlan		1,325		58.76%		879		38.98%		29		1.29%		14		0.62%		8		0.35%		446		19.78%		2,255
	Hayes		411		59.14%		267		38.42%		6		0.86%		7		1.01%		4		0.58%		144		20.72%		695
	Hitchcock		898		51.85%		786		45.38%		35		2.02%		8		0.46%		5		0.29%		112		6.47%		1,732
	Holt		3,389		64.21%		1,751		33.18%		73		1.38%		57		1.08%		8		0.15%		1,638		31.03%		5,278
	Hooker		326		76.35%		98		22.95%		2		0.47%		1		0.23%		0		0.00%		228		53.40%		427
	Howard		1,362		49.78%		1,316		48.10%		24		0.88%		28		1.02%		6		0.22%		46		1.68%		2,736
	Jefferson		2,628		54.88%		2,068		43.18%		57		1.19%		27		0.56%		9		0.19%		560		11.70%		4,789
	Johnson		1,298		52.87%		1,115		45.42%		29		1.18%		8		0.33%		5		0.20%		183		7.45%		2,455
	Kearney		1,830		58.58%		1,219		39.02%		38		1.22%		22		0.70%		15		0.48%		611		19.56%		3,124
	Keith		2,485		66.09%		1,139		30.29%		77		2.05%		42		1.12%		17		0.45%		1,346		35.80%		3,760
	Keya Paha		405		60.72%		245		36.73%		7		1.05%		5		0.75%		5		0.75%		160		23.99%		667
	Kimball		1,257		62.82%		696		34.78%		31		1.55%		11		0.55%		6		0.30%		561		28.04%		2,001
	Knox		2,610		56.08%		1,922		41.30%		79		1.70%		22		0.47%		21		0.45%		688		14.78%		4,654
	Lancaster		39,041		56.47%		28,301		40.94%		1,505		2.18%		149		0.22%		135		0.20%		10,740		15.53%		69,131
	Lincoln		7,076		55.55%		5,355		42.04%		161		1.26%		113		0.89%		34		0.27%		1,721		13.51%		12,739
	Logan		283		57.29%		196		39.68%		9		1.82%		6		1.21%		0		0.00%		87		17.61%		494
	Loup		299		65.57%		140		30.70%		5		1.10%		12		2.63%		0		0.00%		159		34.87%		456
	Madison		7,846		68.49%		3,433		29.97%		114		1.00%		50		0.44%		12		0.10%		4,413		38.52%		11,455
	McPherson		221		66.37%		104		31.23%		2		0.60%		2		0.60%		4		1.20%		117		35.14%		333
	Merrick		2,229		60.21%		1,360		36.74%		67		1.81%		26		0.70%		20		0.54%		869		23.47%		3,702
	Morrill		1,351		56.79%		971		40.82%		37		1.56%		16		0.67%		4		0.17%		380		15.97%		2,379
	Nance		1,121		53.05%		936		44.30%		36		1.70%		13		0.62%		7		0.33%		185		8.75%		2,113
	Nemaha		2,093		59.06%		1,406		39.67%		27		0.76%		10		0.28%		8		0.23%		687		19.39%		3,544
	Nuckolls		1,753		54.37%		1,424		44.17%		32		0.99%		9		0.28%		6		0.19%		329		10.20%		3,224
	Otoe		3,715		59.56%		2,436		39.06%		63		1.01%		15		0.24%		8		0.13%		1,279		20.50%		6,237
	Pawnee		990		52.86%		845		45.11%		26		1.39%		6		0.32%		6		0.32%		145		7.75%		1,873
	Perkins		981		59.49%		622		37.72%		20		1.21%		25		1.52%		1		0.06%		359		21.77%		1,649
	Phelps		3,210		71.19%		1,168		25.90%		55		1.22%		54		1.20%		22		0.49%		2,042		45.29%		4,509
	Pierce		2,172		66.95%		1,004		30.95%		41		1.26%		18		0.55%		9		0.28%		1,168		36.00%		3,244
	Platte		7,217		64.56%		3,693		33.04%		172		1.54%		66		0.59%		31		0.28%		3,524		31.52%		11,179
	Polk		1,797		58.86%		1,190		38.98%		43		1.41%		16		0.52%		7		0.23%		607		19.88%		3,053
	Red Willow		2,978		61.91%		1,722		35.80%		71		1.48%		24		0.50%		15		0.31%		1,256		26.11%		4,810
	Richardson		3,119		55.43%		2,416		42.94%		46		0.82%		28		0.50%		18		0.32%		703		12.49%		5,627
	Rock		732		72.55%		255		25.27%		14		1.39%		7		0.69%		1		0.10%		477		47.28%		1,009
	Saline		2,330		41.15%		3,205		56.61%		59		1.04%		61		1.08%		7		0.12%		-875		-15.46%		5,662
	Sarpy		11,917		60.44%		7,385		37.46%		288		1.46%		82		0.42%		44		0.22%		4,532		22.98%		19,716
	Saunders		3,844		51.24%		3,507		46.75%		106		1.41%		33		0.44%		12		0.16%		337		4.49%		7,502
	Scotts Bluff		6,887		60.05%		4,298		37.48%		171		1.49%		85		0.74%		27		0.24%		2,589		22.57%		11,468
	Seward		3,220		54.12%		2,610		43.87%		70		1.18%		36		0.61%		14		0.24%		610		10.25%		5,950
	Sheridan		2,003		67.83%		810		27.43%		73		2.47%		61		2.07%		6		0.20%		1,193		40.40%		2,953
	Sherman		935		44.67%		1,078		51.51%		31		1.48%		43		2.05%		6		0.29%		-143		-6.84%		2,093
	Sioux		532		60.25%		329		37.26%		16		1.81%		6		0.68%		0		0.00%		203		22.99%		883
	Stanton		1,469		64.26%		764		33.42%		34		1.49%		11		0.48%		8		0.35%		705		30.84%		2,286
	Thayer		1,994		59.35%		1,315		39.14%		40		1.19%		7		0.21%		4		0.12%		679		20.21%		3,360
	Thomas		343		73.29%		103		22.01%		13		2.78%		7		1.50%		2		0.43%		240		51.28%		468
	Thurston		1,290		53.91%		1,021		42.67%		46		1.92%		25		1.04%		11		0.46%		269		11.24%		2,393
	Valley		1,587		57.31%		1,042		37.63%		36		1.30%		95		3.43%		9		0.33%		545		19.68%		2,769
	Washington		3,799		62.17%		2,233		36.54%		54		0.88%		10		0.16%		15		0.25%		1,566		25.63%		6,111
	Wayne		2,521		67.99%		1,089		29.37%		68		1.83%		20		0.54%		10		0.27%		1,432		38.62%		3,708
	Webster		1,267		51.90%		1,130		46.29%		25		1.02%		8		0.33%		11		0.45%		137		5.61%		2,441
	Wheeler		274		62.84%		146		33.49%		6		1.38%		9		2.06%		1		0.23%		128		29.35%		436
	York		4,223		69.62%		1,665		27.45%		72		1.19%		100		1.65%		6		0.10%		2,558		42.17%		6,066
Totals	359,705	59.19%	233,692	38.46%	9,409	1.55%	3,380	0.56%	1,482	0.24%	126,013	20.73%	607,668

Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

• Butler
• Greeley
• Saline
• Sherman

See also

• United States presidential elections in Nebraska

Notes and References

1. Web site: 1976 Presidential General Election Results – Nebraska. Dave Leip’s U.S. Election Atlas.
2. Sullivan, Robert David; ‘How the Red and Blue Map Evolved Over the Past Century’; America Magazine in The National Catholic Review; June 29, 2016
3. Web site: 1976 Presidential Election Statistics. Dave Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections. 2018-03-05.
4. Web site: NE US President Race, November 02, 1976. Our Campaigns.