A county result

Lorain County, presidential election of 1976

Lorain County

55.31%Jimmy Carter (D), the most votes94,406Votes counted for president

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What this is

Lorain County counted 94,406 votes for president across 5 candidates in 1976. The totals are as certified in the sources below, and every figure on this page is one of them.

The count, as certified

Every candidate on the ballot that year, in the order the count puts them.

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Jimmy CarterDemocratic52,38755.31%
Gerald FordRepublican39,45941.66%
Eugene "Gene" McCarthyIndependent1,6311.72%
OtherOther5250.55%
Lester MaddoxAmerican Independent4040.43%

Turnout: None found in the records checked

This year in context

Worked out from the certified counts for Ohio and its counties. Lean is the Republican share minus the Democratic share.

Ohio that year
Ohio went to Jimmy Carter (Democratic) with 48.90%, a 0.2-point margin over Gerald Ford. The country elected Jimmy Carter.
Against the state
Lorain County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+13.7 against Ohio's D+0.2: 13.4 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 77th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
Since 1972
From 1972 to 1976 the county's lean moved 29.6 points toward the Democrats, from R+15.9 to D+13.7.
Matched
Lorain County voted with Ohio and voted for the national winner.

Every field this record holds

The entry as it is stored, field by field. Nothing here is computed.

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Sources

Where the numbers above came from, in the record's own order.

Data from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0: 1976 United States presidential election in Ohio

  1. 1976 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1976-11-02 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0

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