A county result
Portage County, presidential election of 1976
Portage County
55.72%Jimmy Carter (D), the most votes43,707Votes counted for president
What this is
Portage County counted 43,707 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.
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Carter | Democratic | 24,417 | 55.72% |
| Gerald Ford | Republican | 17,927 | 40.91% |
| Eugene "Gene" McCarthy | Independent | 1,008 | 2.30% |
| Other | Other | 184 | 0.42% |
| Lester Maddox | American Independent | 171 | 0.39% |
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
- Portage County's lean, the Republican share minus the Democratic share, was D+14.8 against Ohio's D+0.2: 14.6 points more Democratic than Ohio. It ranked 78th of 88 counties from most Republican to most Democratic.
- Since 1972
- From 1972 to 1976 the county's lean moved 20.4 points toward the Democrats, from R+5.6 to D+14.8.
- Matched
- Portage 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.
Not yet researched
Where this appears
The pages and figures this entry is drawn in.
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
- 1976 United States presidential election in Ohio · Wikipedia · 1976-11-02 · accessed 2026-09-18 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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