1976 United States presidential election in Hawaii
November 2, 1976
 
Nominee Jimmy Carter Gerald Ford
Party Democratic Republican
Home state Georgia Michigan
Running mate Walter Mondale Bob Dole
Electoral vote 4 0
Popular vote 147,375 140,003
Percentage 50.59% 48.06%
County Results
Carter
  50-60%

President before election

Gerald Ford
Republican

 Elected President

Jimmy Carter
Democratic

The 1976 United States presidential election in Hawaii took place on November 2, 1976. All fifty states and the District of Columbia were part of the 1976 United States presidential election. Hawaii voters chose four electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Hawaii was won by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter by 2.53 points, making Hawaii 0.43% more Democratic than the nation-at-large. It was the only postbellum state won by Carter: since William McKinley in 1896 no other candidate has won the presidency while winning so few as one postbellum state.[lower-alpha 1] In fact, Carter did not win any other state fully west of the hundredth meridian, including the Pacific states of Oregon and California admitted before the Civil War.

Results

1976 United States presidential election in Hawaii
Party Candidate Votes Percentage Electoral votes
Democratic Jimmy Carter 147,375 50.59% 4
Republican Gerald Ford (incumbent) 140,003 48.06% 0
Libertarian Roger MacBride 3,923 1.35% 0

Results by county

County James Earl Carter
Democratic		 Gerald Rudolph Ford
Republican		 Roger Lea MacBride
Libertarian		 Margin Total votes cast[1]
County #  % #  % #  % #  % #
Hawaii 15,960 50.24% 15,366 48.37% 439 1.38% 594 1.86% 31,765
Honolulu 111,389 50.07% 108,041 48.56% 3,046 1.37% 3,348 1.50% 222,476
Kauai 8,105 55.81% 6,278 43.23% 139 0.96% 1,827 12.59% 14,522
Maui 11,921 52.89% 10,318 45.78% 299 1.33% 1,603 7.11% 22,538
Totals147,37550.59%140,00348.06%3,9231.35%7,3722.53%291,301

Notes

  1. ↑ Since 1912 when all the states of the contiguous US had been admitted, James M. Cox in 1920, Al Smith in 1928, Herbert Hoover in 1932, Alf Landon in 1936, Adlai Stevenson II in 1952 and 1956, George McGovern in 1972 and Walter Mondale in 1984 were clean-swept in postbellum states. None of these candidates received more than 127 electoral votes, whereas minus Hawaii’s four, Carter totalled 293.

References

  1. ↑ David Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Hawaii


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