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Election 1976 Results

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1976 presidential election in Colorado

Gerald Ford (Republican) beat Jimmy Carter (Democrat) in Colorado in 1976, 54.0% to 42.6%, a margin of 11.4 points and 123,477 votes.

Colorado voted 13.5 points more Republican than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

The Republican hold continued from 1972, when Richard Nixon won.

Republicans led in 49 of the 63 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 14. The largest, Denver, cast 226,738 votes and went to the Democrat by 2.8 points. The closest was Cheyenne, where 15 votes separated the two parties.

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Early projection, based on early and incomplete polling: the likely matchups, each weighted by the betting markets' odds of both nominations, not a result. Each county is its 2024 presidential margin moved by its state's projected swing; set a national vote and every state, district and county moves by the same amount from our projection. Colours run in 100 steps from a safe Republican to a safe Democratic margin. Boundaries: US Census Bureau.

Result

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Gerald Ford won Republican 584,278 54.0%
Jimmy Carter Democratic 460,801 42.6%
All other candidates 36,361 3.4%
Total1,081,440

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Denver 112,229 49.5% 105,960 46.7% 8,549 226,738 D+2.8
Jefferson 52,782 36.6% 87,080 60.4% 4,211 144,073 R+23.8
Arapahoe 33,685 33.8% 63,154 63.5% 2,687 99,526 R+29.6
El Paso 32,911 38.2% 50,929 59.1% 2,290 86,130 R+20.9
Boulder 33,284 41.0% 42,830 52.7% 5,139 81,253 R+11.7
Adams 40,551 51.9% 35,392 45.3% 2,184 78,127 D+6.6
Larimer 19,005 35.9% 32,169 60.7% 1,809 52,983 R+24.8
Pueblo 25,841 57.2% 18,518 41.0% 784 45,143 D+16.2
Weld 16,501 41.6% 21,976 55.4% 1,225 39,702 R+13.8
Mesa 8,807 32.2% 17,924 65.4% 659 27,390 R+33.3
Fremont 4,886 45.4% 5,647 52.4% 235 10,768 R+7.1
La Plata 3,843 36.4% 6,228 59.0% 476 10,547 R+22.6
Otero 4,118 46.2% 4,597 51.5% 205 8,920 R+5.4
Morgan 3,798 44.0% 4,603 53.3% 228 8,629 R+9.3
Delta 3,232 38.2% 4,980 58.8% 255 8,467 R+20.6
Montrose 3,164 38.2% 4,838 58.4% 280 8,282 R+20.2
Logan 3,543 44.4% 4,256 53.3% 183 7,982 R+8.9
Garfield 2,852 36.3% 4,699 59.7% 315 7,866 R+23.5
Douglas 2,459 31.7% 5,078 65.5% 211 7,748 R+33.8
Las Animas 4,459 62.1% 2,615 36.4% 101 7,175 D+25.7
Prowers 2,861 51.2% 2,578 46.1% 149 5,588 D+5.1
Pitkin 2,194 39.8% 2,955 53.6% 363 5,512 R+13.8
Routt 2,130 40.9% 2,822 54.1% 261 5,213 R+13.3
Montezuma 1,993 38.5% 3,002 58.0% 182 5,177 R+19.5
Chaffee 2,064 40.0% 2,925 56.7% 173 5,162 R+16.7
Alamosa 2,052 42.2% 2,599 53.5% 206 4,857 R+11.3
Eagle 1,502 32.5% 2,963 64.2% 152 4,617 R+31.6
Yuma 2,025 45.0% 2,350 52.2% 127 4,502 R+7.2
Rio Grande 1,475 35.0% 2,627 62.4% 110 4,212 R+27.4
Gunnison 1,250 30.1% 2,568 61.9% 332 4,150 R+31.8
Moffat 1,451 38.5% 2,099 55.7% 220 3,770 R+17.2
Kit Carson 1,647 45.6% 1,888 52.3% 76 3,611 R+6.7
Lake 1,549 47.2% 1,575 48.0% 155 3,279 R+0.8
Conejos 1,698 53.2% 1,426 44.6% 70 3,194 D+8.5
Huerfano 1,932 61.0% 1,182 37.3% 51 3,165 D+23.7
Summit 1,087 34.6% 1,826 58.2% 227 3,140 R+23.5
Grand 910 33.0% 1,703 61.8% 144 2,757 R+28.8
Washington 1,211 44.3% 1,440 52.6% 85 2,736 R+8.4
Clear Creek 1,069 40.1% 1,477 55.4% 122 2,668 R+15.3
Teller 986 39.1% 1,410 55.9% 125 2,521 R+16.8
Baca 1,164 46.4% 1,303 52.0% 40 2,507 R+5.5
Bent 1,268 51.1% 1,156 46.6% 56 2,480 D+4.5
Elbert 1,068 44.0% 1,279 52.7% 79 2,426 R+8.7
Lincoln 1,059 44.4% 1,276 53.5% 52 2,387 R+9.1
Phillips 1,173 49.4% 1,142 48.1% 58 2,373 D+1.3
Saguache 1,059 47.9% 1,094 49.5% 57 2,210 R+1.6
Rio Blanco 627 29.3% 1,439 67.2% 74 2,140 R+37.9
Park 741 39.6% 1,034 55.2% 97 1,872 R+15.7
Sedgwick 773 45.5% 902 53.1% 25 1,700 R+7.6
Crowley 667 43.9% 834 54.9% 18 1,519 R+11.0
Costilla 1,033 71.0% 392 27.0% 29 1,454 D+44.1
Archuleta 632 44.1% 768 53.6% 32 1,432 R+9.5
San Miguel 674 47.5% 622 43.8% 123 1,419 D+3.7
Cheyenne 625 49.3% 610 48.1% 32 1,267 D+1.2
Kiowa 529 46.5% 598 52.6% 10 1,137 R+6.1
Gilpin 563 51.4% 451 41.2% 81 1,095 D+10.2
Ouray 333 32.3% 645 62.5% 54 1,032 R+30.2
Custer 259 32.9% 491 62.4% 37 787 R+29.5
Dolores 374 49.7% 343 45.6% 35 752 D+4.1
Jackson 279 37.3% 455 60.8% 14 748 R+23.5
Mineral 167 39.5% 235 55.6% 21 423 R+16.1
San Juan 167 40.6% 221 53.8% 23 411 R+13.1
Hinsdale 83 29.2% 189 66.5% 12 284 R+37.3

Counties as they stood in 1976; some have since been split, merged or renamed. Margin: the Democrat's share of all votes minus the Republican's. Sources and how the results were checked.

Colorado in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Kamala Harris (D) D+11.0
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+13.5
2016 Hillary Clinton (D) D+4.9
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+9.0
2004 George W. Bush (R) R+4.7
2000 George W. Bush (R) R+8.4
1996 Bob Dole (R) R+1.4
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+4.3
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+7.8
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+28.3
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+24.0
1976 Gerald Ford (R) R+11.4
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+28.0
1968 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.1
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+23.1
1960 Richard Nixon (R) R+9.7
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+19.7
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+21.3
1948 Harry S. Truman (D) D+5.4
1944 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+6.8
1940 Wendell Willkie (R) R+2.6
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+23.3
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+13.4
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+30.8
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+35.0
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+23.4
1916 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+26.0
1912 Woodrow Wilson (D) D+20.9
1908 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+1.1
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+14.2
1900 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+13.4
1896 William Jennings Bryan (D) D+71.1
1892 James B. Weaver (other)
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+14.4
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+12.6
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+5.2