The 1976 United States presidential election in Louisiana took place on November 2, 1976, as part of the 1976 United States presidential election. State voters chose ten representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Louisiana was won by Jimmy Carter (D–Georgia), with 51.73% of the popular vote. Carter defeated incumbent President Gerald Ford (R–Michigan), who finished with 45.95% of the popular vote. No third-party candidate amounted to 1% of the vote; American Party candidate Lester Maddox came the closest with 0.79%.
Jimmy Carter went on to become the 39th president of the United States. As of the 2024 presidential election, this is the last election in which Grant Parish and West Carroll Parish voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.
Campaign
57% of white voters supported Ford while 40% supported Carter.
Results
Results by parish
Parishes that flipped from Republican to Democratic
- Allen
- Avoyelles
- Acadia
- Catahoula
- Concordia
- Evangeline
- East Carroll
- Iberville
- Iberia
- Jackson
- Lafourche
- Madison
- Orleans
- Rapides
- Pointe Coupee
- St. Helena
- St. James
- St. Bernard
- Vermillion
- West Baton Rouge
- West Carroll
- Winn
- Ascension
- Assumption
- Beauregard
- Bienville
- Calcasieu
- Cameron
- DeSoto
- East Feliciana
- Livingston
- Jefferson Davis
- Natchitoches
- Red River
- Sabine
- Saint Charles
- St. John the Baptist
- St. Landry
- St. Martin
- Saint Mary
- Tangipahoa
- Tensas
- Vernon
- Washington
See also
- United States presidential elections in Louisiana
References
Works cited
- Black, Earl; Black, Merle (1992). The Vital South: How Presidents Are Elected. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674941306.
