1976 United States presidential election in Georgia
The 1976 United States presidential election in Georgia was held on November 2, 1976. The Democratic candidate, former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter, overwhelmingly won his home state with 66.74% of the vote ahead of the Republican Party nominee, incumbent President Gerald Ford, giving him the state's 12 electoral votes. Carter carried all of Georgia's 159 counties (the last time any presidential candidate has won every single county in the state) and 10 congressional districts by wide margins. This is the only presidential election in Georgia's history where the Democratic candidate carried all of Georgia's counties, despite the state's long Democratic streak, which had ended only in 1964. Even though Carter's percentage of the vote was lower than that of several previous Democratic victors in the state, such as Woodrow Wilson, James M. Cox, John W. Davis, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, none of these had carried every county in the state. In particular, Carter remains the only Democrat...
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