1976 Democratic National Convention
1976 presidential election | |
Convention | |
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Date(s) | July 12–15, 1976 |
City | New York City |
Venue | Madison Square Garden |
Keynote speaker | Barbara Jordan |
Candidates | |
Presidential nominee | Jimmy Carter of Georgia |
Vice presidential nominee | Walter Mondale of Minnesota |
The 1976 Democratic National Convention met at
By the time the convention opened Carter already had more than enough delegates to clinch the nomination, and so the major emphasis at the convention was to create an appearance of party unity, which had been lacking in the 1968 and 1972 Democratic Conventions. Carter easily won the nomination on the first ballot. He then chose Mondale, a liberal and a protégé of Hubert Humphrey, as his running mate.
The Carter–Mondale ticket went on to win the 1976 presidential election on November 2.
The convention is also notable for the fact that congresswoman Lindy Boggs, who presided over it, thus became the first woman to preside over a national political convention.[1]
Platform
The Democrats' 1976 platform called for continued price controls on natural gas, a policy which had caused dwindling domestic natural gas reserves since 1974 and which President Gerald Ford was asking to rescind.[2] The platform stated: "Those now pressing to turn natural-gas price regulation over to OPEC, while arguing the rhetoric of so-called deregulation, must not prevail."
Abortion
The platform added "it is undesirable to attempt to
Presidential vote tally
The following people had their names placed in nomination.
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Morris Udall
of Arizona -
Activist
New York
The tally at the convention was:[3][4]
Democratic National Convention Presidential nominee vote, 1976 | |||||
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Candidate | Votes | Percentage | |||
Jimmy Carter | 2,238.5 | 74.42% | |||
Mo Udall | 329.5 | 10.95% | |||
Jerry Brown | 300.5 | 9.99% | |||
George Wallace | 57.0 | 1.89% | |||
Ellen McCormack | 22.0 | 0.73% | |||
Frank Church | 19.0 | 0.63% | |||
Hubert Humphrey | 10.0 | 0.33% | |||
Henry M. Jackson | 10.0 | 0.33% | |||
Fred R. Harris | 9.0 | 0.30% | |||
Milton Shapp | 2.0 | 0.07% | |||
Robert Byrd | 2.0 | 0.07% | |||
1 vote each | 0.03% each | ||||
"nobody" | 0.5 | 0.02% | |||
Abstention | 3.0 | 0.10% | |||
Totals | 3,008 | 100.00% |
Vice Presidential nomination
According to Jimmy Carter,[5] his top choices for vice president were: Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie, Frank Church, Adlai Stevenson III, John Glenn, and Henry M. Jackson. He selected Mondale.
The vice presidential tally was:[6]
- Walter Mondale, 2,817 (94.28%)
- Carl Albert, 36 (1.21%)
- Barbara Jordan, 25 (0.84%)
- Ron Dellums, 20 (0.67%)
- Henry M. Jackson, 16 (0.54%)
- Gary Benoit, 12 (0.40%)
- Frank Church, 11 (0.37%)
- Fritz Efaw, 11 (0.37%)
- Peter F. Flaherty, 11 (0.37%)
- George Wallace, 6 (0.20%)
- Allard K. Lowenstein, 5 (0.17%)
- Edmund Muskie, 4 (0.13%)
- Philip Hart, 2 (0.07%)
- Thomas E. Morgan, 2 (0.07%)
- Mo Udall, 2 (0.07%)
- Al Castro, 1 (0.03%)
- Fred R. Harris, 1 (0.03%)
- Ernest Hollings, 1 (0.03%)
- Peter W. Rodino, 1 (0.03%)
- Josephine E. R. A. Smith, 1 (0.03%)
- Daniel Schorr, 1 (0.03%)
- Hunter S. Thompson, 1 (0.03%)
- Wendell Anderson, 1 (0.03%)
In his acceptance speech, Mondale diverted from his printed text which echoed John F. Kennedy's call to "get the country moving again;" Mondale instead said, "Let's get this government moving again!"[7]
See also
- 1976 Republican National Convention
- 1976 United States presidential election
- History of the United States Democratic Party
- List of Democratic National Conventions
- United States presidential nominating convention
- 1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries
References
- ^ "Former Congresswoman and Ambassador Lindy Boggs Dies at 97 - ABC News". Abcnews.go.com. July 27, 2013. Retrieved April 15, 2015.
- ISBN 0-465-04195-7.
- ^ "Our Campaigns - US President - D Convention Race - Jul 12, 1976". www.ourcampaigns.com.
- ^ CQ Almanac 1976 (32nd ed.). Washington D.C.: Congressional Quarterly. 1977. pp. 845–54. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
- ^ "Virtual Tour: Race to the White House". jimmycarterlibrary.gov. Archived from the original on March 30, 2008. Retrieved April 5, 2008.
- ^ "US Vice President - D Convention 1976". Our Campaigns. Retrieved August 26, 2017.
- ISBN 0-465-04195-7.
External links
- Democratic Party Platform of 1976 at The American Presidency Project
- Carter Nomination Acceptance Speech for President at DNC (transcript) at The American Presidency Project
- Text and audio of Barbara Jordan's keynote address
- List of members from various state delegations to convention
- Video of Carter nomination acceptance speech for President at DNC (via YouTube)
- Audio of Carter nomination acceptance speech for President at DNC[permanent dead link]
- Video of Mondale nomination acceptance speech for Vice President at DNC (via YouTube)
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