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:
- 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
