Ohio was won by former GeorgiaGovernorJimmy Carter (D) by a margin of 0.27%, which made the state almost 2% more Republican than the nation-at-large. As of the 2020 presidential election[update], this is the last election in which Adams County and Brown County voted for a Democratic presidential candidate, the last time until 2020 when Wood County voted for a losing candidate,[1] and the last time that a Democrat would win Ohio while losing neighboring Michigan.
The state was not only one of the closest states in the election, but it was called for Carter after he won Wisconsin, the tipping-point state of the election. Ohio and Wisconsin were two states that Carter won without receiving above 50 percent of the vote, and if Carter had lost both, he would have lost the election to Ford.[2][3][4]
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