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. 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.
Had Ford won Hawaii and also carried Ohio, he would have been elected president.
Results 1976 United States presidential election in HawaiiPartyCandidateVotesPercentageElectoral 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 Jimmy CarterDemocratic Gerald FordRepublican Roger MacBrideLibertarian Margin Total votes castDavid Leip’s Atlas of U.S. Presidential Elections; 1976 Presidential General Election Data Graphs – Hawaii # % # % # % # % #Hawaii15,96050.24%15,36648.37%4391.38%5941.87%31,765Honolulu111,38950.07%108,04148.56%3,0461.37%3,3481.51%222,476Kauaʻi8,10555.81%6,27843.23%1390.96%1,82712.58%14,522Maui11,92152.89%10,31845.78%2991.33%1,6037.11%22,538Totals147,37550.59%140,00348.06%3,9231.35%7,3722.53%291,301
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic Hawaii Honolulu Kauaʻi Maui
By congressional district Carter and Ford each won a congressional district. District Carter Ford Representative 49.3% 50.7%Cecil Heftel 53.0% 47.0%Daniel Akaka
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