1976 United States presidential election

Presidential election results map. Blue denotes states won by Carter/Mondale and red denotes those won by Ford/Dole. Pink represents the sole electoral vote for Reagan/Dole by a Washington faithless elector. Numbers indicate electoral votes cast by each state and the District of Columbia.

Gerald Ford, the incumbent president in 1976, whose partial term expired at noon on January 20, 1977 Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 2, 1976. The Democratic ticket of former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter and Minnesota senior senator Walter Mondale narrowly defeated the Republican ticket of incumbent president Gerald Ford and Kansas junior senator Bob Dole. This was the first presidential election since 1932 in which the incumbent was defeated, as well as the only one of the six presidential elections from 1968 to 1988 to have the Democratic Party ticket win.