The 1976 United States presidential election in Tennessee was held on November 2, 1976. The Democratic Party candidate, former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter won the state of Tennessee with 56% of the vote against Republican Party candidate, President Gerald Ford, carrying the state's 10 electoral votes.
As of the 2024 presidential election, this was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won more than 50% of the vote in Tennessee or carried the state by a double-digit margin. This is also the last election in which Williamson County, Sullivan County, Madison County, Hamblen County, Cumberland County, McMinn County, Loudon County, Monroe County, Rhea County, and Chester County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate.
From 1966 to 1972, the Republicans won Tennessee in the presidential elections, both of the state's seats in the United States Senate, the governorship, and increased its membership in the U.S. House to four of the state's nine seats. However, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ray Blanton won in the 1974 election.
Carter won Tennessee and the Democratic nominee won in the concurrent senatorial election. Among white voters, 51% supported Carter while 48% supported Ford.
Jimmy Carter easily won Tennessee in the 1976 Democratic Party presidential primaries.
Gerald Ford narrowly won the popular vote in the 1976 Tennessee Republican presidential primary, but Ronald Reagan won the majority of Tennessee's delegates.
In Tennessee Jimmy Carter won 6 out of the 8 congressional districts, including one that elected a republican, while Ford own the other two.