• Source: 1976 United States presidential election in Tennessee

The 1976 United States presidential election in Tennessee was held on November 2, 1976. The Democratic Party candidate, former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter won the state of Tennessee with 56% of the vote against Republican Party candidate, President Gerald Ford, carrying the state's 10 electoral votes.
As of the 2020 presidential election, this was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won more than 50% of the vote in Tennessee or carried the state by a double-digit margin. This is also the last election in which Williamson County, Sullivan County, Madison County, Hamblen County, Cumberland County, McMinn County, Loudon County, Monroe County, Rhea County, and Chester County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.




Background


From 1966 to 1972, the Republicans won Tennessee in the presidential elections, both of the state's seats in the United States Senate, the governorship, and increased its membership in the U.S. House to four of the state's nine seats. However, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ray Blanton won in the 1974 election.




Campaign


Carter won Tennessee and the Democratic nominee won in the concurrent senatorial election. 51% of white voters supported Carter while 48% supported Ford.




Results






= Results by county

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Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic

Anderson
Benton
Bledsoe
Cannon
Campbell
Carroll
Chester
Claiborne
Cumberland
DeKalb
Franklin
Grundy
Fentress
Hamblen
Haywood
Henry
Hickman
Hardin
Humphreys
Lake
Lawrence
Loudon
Madison
McMinn
McNairy
Meigs
Monroe
Morgan
Overton
Robertson
Rhea
Roane
Sequatchie
Sullivan
Smith
Trousdale
Van Buren
Warren
Williamson
Bedford
Cheatham
Clay
Coffee
Crockett
Davidson
Decatur
Dickson
Dyer
Fayette
Gibson
Giles
Lauderdale
Lewis
Marion
Marshall
Maury
Montgomery
Moore
Morgan
Obion
Polk
Putnam
Rutherford
Shelby
Sumner
Tipton
Weakley
Wilson
Hardeman
Lincoln
White




References






Works cited


Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.
Moreland, Laurence; Steed, Robert; Baker, Tod, eds. (1991). The 1988 Presidential Election in the South: Continuity Amidst Change in Southern Party Politics. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0275931455.

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