About: 1976 United States presidential election in Florida

In the 1976 United States presidential election, Florida was won by the Democratic candidate, former Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter, over the Republican candidate, incumbent President Gerald Ford. Carter won by a margin of 5.29%, giving him 17 electoral votes. This result made Florida slightly over 4% more Democratic than the nation-at-large-- the last time Florida voted more Democratic than the nation in a presidential election. Carter did well in the South, with Arkansas and his home state of Georgia giving him particularly large margins. Florida, together with other growing Southern states such as Virginia (which he narrowly lost) and Texas, however, were more competitive, as Ford did well in many growing counties in the South, in many cases largely inhabited by transplants. In Florid