List of 1976 swing states
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The 1976 U.S. Presidential election saw incumbent - but unelected - Republican
President Gerald Ford
face Democratic
Georgia
Governor Jimmy Carter
. The following is a list of the states with the lowest margins of victory (less than 3%) in 1976, sorted by the margin percentages and color-coded for Ford or Carter:
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President Gerald Ford
Gerald Ford
Gerald Rudolph "Jerry" Ford, Jr. was the 38th President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977, and the 40th Vice President of the United States serving from 1973 to 1974...
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Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)
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Governor Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
. The following is a list of the states with the lowest margins of victory (less than 3%) in 1976, sorted by the margin percentages and color-coded for Ford or Carter:
- New Mexico- 2.47% 10,271 votes
- New Jersey- 2.16% 65,035 votes
- Illinois- 1.97% 92,974 votes
- California- 1.78% 139,960 votes
- South Dakota- 1.48% 4,437 votes
- Virginia- 1.34% 22,658 votes
- Oklahoma- 1.21% 13,266 votes
- Iowa- 1.01% 12,932 votes
- Maine- 0.84% 4,041 votes
- Oregon- 0.17% 1,713 votes
- Ohio- 0.27% 11,116 votes
- Wisconsin- 1.68% 35,245 votes
- Mississippi- 1.88% 14,463 votes
- Hawaii- 2.53% 7,372 votes
- Pennsylvania- 2.66% 123,073 votes