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Election 1976 Results

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1976 presidential election in Pennsylvania

Jimmy Carter (Democrat) beat Gerald Ford (Republican) in Pennsylvania in 1976, 50.4% to 47.7%, a margin of 2.7 points and 123,073 votes.

Pennsylvania voted 0.6 points more Democratic than the country as a whole, where the margin was D+2.1.

Pennsylvania changed party: in 1972 it went Republican, for Richard Nixon.

Republicans led in 46 of the 67 counties as they stood then and Democrats in 21. The largest, Philadelphia, cast 746,197 votes and went to the Democrat by 34.3 points. The closest was Clearfield, where 88 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
Jimmy Carter won Democratic 2,328,677 50.4%
Gerald Ford Republican 2,205,604 47.7%
All other candidates 86,506 1.9%
Total4,620,787

Every county

CountyDemocratRepublicanOthersTotalMargin
Philadelphia 494,579 66.3% 239,000 32.0% 12,618 746,197 D+34.3
Allegheny 328,343 50.7% 303,127 46.8% 16,387 647,857 D+3.9
Montgomery 112,644 41.2% 155,480 56.9% 5,045 273,169 R+15.7
Delaware 117,252 43.3% 148,679 54.9% 4,963 270,894 R+11.6
Bucks 79,838 47.3% 85,628 50.7% 3,457 168,923 R+3.4
Westmoreland 74,217 54.5% 59,172 43.5% 2,745 136,134 D+11.1
Luzerne 74,655 54.9% 60,058 44.2% 1,296 136,009 D+10.7
Chester 42,712 38.1% 67,686 60.4% 1,628 112,026 R+22.3
Lancaster 35,533 32.4% 72,106 65.7% 2,037 109,676 R+33.3
Berks 50,994 47.4% 54,452 50.6% 2,107 107,553 R+3.2
Erie 55,385 51.6% 49,641 46.2% 2,413 107,439 D+5.3
Lackawanna 57,685 56.1% 43,354 42.2% 1,758 102,797 D+13.9
York 41,281 41.3% 56,912 56.9% 1,751 99,944 R+15.6
Lehigh 46,620 48.9% 46,895 49.2% 1,793 95,308 R+0.3
Washington 49,317 59.2% 32,827 39.4% 1,107 83,251 D+19.8
Dauphin 34,342 41.3% 46,819 56.3% 1,961 83,122 R+15.0
Beaver 46,117 56.8% 33,593 41.4% 1,440 81,150 D+15.4
Northampton 42,514 55.2% 32,926 42.8% 1,521 76,961 D+12.5
Cambria 38,797 53.8% 32,469 45.0% 862 72,128 D+8.8
Schuylkill 33,905 50.6% 31,944 47.7% 1,099 66,948 D+2.9
Cumberland 23,008 35.8% 39,950 62.2% 1,312 64,270 R+26.4
Fayette 32,232 60.5% 20,021 37.6% 991 53,244 D+22.9
Butler 22,611 45.0% 26,366 52.5% 1,221 50,198 R+7.5
Mercer 25,041 51.9% 22,469 46.6% 725 48,235 D+5.3
Blair 18,397 38.8% 28,290 59.7% 679 47,366 R+20.9
Lawrence 23,337 54.7% 18,546 43.5% 757 42,640 D+11.2
Lycoming 18,635 44.3% 22,648 53.8% 799 42,082 R+9.5
Centre 17,867 44.2% 21,177 52.4% 1,393 40,437 R+8.2
Northumberland 18,939 48.7% 19,283 49.6% 654 38,876 R+0.9
Franklin 14,643 41.4% 20,009 56.5% 737 35,389 R+15.2
Lebanon 11,785 35.4% 20,880 62.6% 665 33,330 R+27.3
Indiana 14,650 47.3% 15,786 51.0% 513 30,949 R+3.7
Crawford 14,712 48.1% 15,301 50.0% 597 30,610 R+1.9
Somerset 13,452 45.3% 15,960 53.8% 273 29,685 R+8.4
Armstrong 15,179 52.3% 13,378 46.1% 493 29,050 D+6.2
Clearfield 13,714 49.5% 13,626 49.2% 345 27,685 D+0.3
Columbia 12,051 50.4% 11,508 48.1% 366 23,925 D+2.3
Adams 8,771 41.1% 12,133 56.9% 418 21,322 R+15.8
Venango 8,653 40.6% 12,270 57.6% 388 21,311 R+17.0
Bradford 7,913 37.6% 12,851 61.1% 270 21,034 R+23.5
Monroe 9,544 47.3% 10,228 50.7% 393 20,165 R+3.4
Carbon 10,791 54.0% 8,883 44.5% 299 19,973 D+9.6
Jefferson 7,456 43.5% 9,437 55.1% 237 17,130 R+11.6
McKean 6,424 38.0% 10,305 60.9% 197 16,926 R+22.9
Warren 7,412 45.8% 8,508 52.6% 250 16,170 R+6.8
Bedford 6,652 41.2% 9,355 58.0% 131 16,138 R+16.7
Clarion 6,585 43.3% 8,360 55.0% 265 15,210 R+11.7
Susquehanna 6,075 41.4% 8,331 56.7% 276 14,682 R+15.4
Tioga 5,795 40.2% 8,417 58.4% 193 14,405 R+18.2
Greene 8,769 61.7% 5,293 37.2% 157 14,219 D+24.4
Mifflin 6,210 44.0% 7,698 54.6% 201 14,109 R+10.5
Huntingdon 5,410 40.2% 7,843 58.3% 209 13,462 R+18.1
Elk 6,713 51.2% 6,159 47.0% 237 13,109 D+4.2
Clinton 6,532 52.0% 5,858 46.6% 174 12,564 D+5.4
Perry 4,605 37.4% 7,454 60.5% 261 12,320 R+23.1
Wayne 4,244 34.5% 7,811 63.5% 255 12,310 R+29.0
Snyder 3,097 31.2% 6,557 66.0% 275 9,929 R+34.8
Union 3,405 34.4% 6,309 63.7% 188 9,902 R+29.3
Wyoming 3,628 38.4% 5,705 60.3% 122 9,455 R+22.0
Juniata 3,105 43.1% 3,991 55.4% 110 7,206 R+12.3
Pike 2,775 38.8% 4,241 59.3% 130 7,146 R+20.5
Potter 2,983 43.3% 3,828 55.6% 80 6,891 R+12.3
Montour 2,727 44.9% 3,259 53.6% 89 6,075 R+8.8
Fulton 1,737 42.9% 2,219 54.8% 96 4,052 R+11.9
Cameron 1,319 44.3% 1,616 54.3% 42 2,977 R+10.0
Sullivan 1,347 45.6% 1,584 53.7% 20 2,951 R+8.0
Forest 1,017 46.5% 1,135 51.9% 35 2,187 R+5.4

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.

Pennsylvania in every presidential election we hold

YearWinnerMargin
2024 Donald Trump (R) R+1.7
2020 Joe Biden (D) D+1.2
2016 Donald Trump (R) R+0.7
2012 Barack Obama (D) D+5.4
2008 Barack Obama (D) D+10.3
2004 John Kerry (D) D+2.5
2000 Al Gore (D) D+4.2
1996 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.2
1992 Bill Clinton (D) D+9.0
1988 George H. W. Bush (R) R+2.3
1984 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.4
1980 Ronald Reagan (R) R+7.1
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) D+2.7
1972 Richard Nixon (R) R+20.0
1968 Hubert Humphrey (D) D+3.6
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) D+30.2
1960 John F. Kennedy (D) D+2.3
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+13.2
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) R+5.9
1948 Thomas E. Dewey (R) R+4.0
1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+2.8
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+6.9
1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) D+16.0
1932 Herbert Hoover (R) R+5.5
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) R+31.4
1924 Calvin Coolidge (R) R+46.3
1920 Warren G. Harding (R) R+38.6
1916 Charles Evans Hughes (R) R+14.0
1912 Theodore Roosevelt (other)
1908 William Howard Taft (R) R+23.4
1904 Theodore Roosevelt (R) R+40.9
1900 William McKinley (R) R+24.6
1896 William McKinley (R) R+24.7
1892 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+6.4
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R) R+8.0
1884 James G. Blaine (R) R+9.5
1880 James A. Garfield (R) R+4.3
1876 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) R+2.4
1872 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+24.5
1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) R+4.4