1976 Republican Party presidential primaries

1976 Republican Party presidential primaries
January 6 to July 14, 1976
2,259 delegates to the Republican National Convention
1,130 votes needed to win
 
Candidate Gerald Ford Ronald Reagan
Home state Michigan California
Delegate count 1,121 1,078
Contests won 27 24
Popular vote 5,529,899 4,760,222
Percentage 53.3% 45.9%
     Ford      Reagan      Uncommitted
Previous Republican nominee

Richard Nixon

 Republican nominee

Gerald Ford

From January 6 to July 14, 1976, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1976 United States presidential election. The major candidates were incumbent President Gerald Ford and former governor of California Ronald Reagan. After a series of primary elections and caucuses, neither secured a majority of the delegates before the convention.

This was the last election in which the Republican nominee was undetermined at the start of the party's national convention.

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