1976 United States presidential election
Statistics
Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. "1976 Presidential Election Results".

1976 United States presidential election

Section Title: Statistics
Table Section Text: Source (Popular Vote): Leip, David. "1976 Presidential Election Results".

Presidential candidate	Party	Home state	Popular vote	Electoral vote	Running mate

Count	Percentage	Vice-presidential candidate

James Earl Carter Jr.	Democratic	Georgia	40,831,881	50.08%	297	Walter Frederick Mondale	Minnesota	297

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (Incumbent)	Republican	Michigan	39,148,634	48.02%	240	Robert Joseph Dole	Kansas	241

Ronald Wilson Reagan	Republican	California	—	—	1

Eugene McCarthy	None	Minnesota	740,460	0.91%	0	0

Roger MacBride	Libertarian	Virginia	172,557	0.21%	0	David Bergland	California	0

Lester Maddox	American Independent	Georgia	170,274	0.21%	0	William Dyke	Wisconsin	0

Thomas J. Anderson	American	158,271	0.19%	0	Rufus Shackelford	Florida	0

Peter Camejo	Socialist Workers	California	90,986	0.11%	0	Willie Mae Reid	Illinois	0

Gus Hall	Communist	New York	58,709	0.07%	0	Jarvis Tyner	New York	0

Margaret Wright	People's	California	49,013	0.06%	0	Benjamin Spock	Connecticut	0

Lyndon LaRouche	U.S. Labor	New York	40,043	0.05%	0	R. Wayne Evans	Michigan	0

Other	70,785	0.08%	—	Other	—

Total	81,531,584	100%	538	538

Needed to win	270	270

Sentence(s)

In the 1976 United States presidential election, the electoral votes for Carter, Ford, and Reagan were 297, 240, and 1 respectively.

final_sentence: In the 1976 United States presidential election, the electoral votes for Carter, Ford, and Reagan were 297, 240, and 1 respectively.