Ford took 54.34% of the vote to Carter’s 43.14%, a victory margin of 11.20%. Anti-war former Democratic Senator Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, running as an Independent presidential candidate, came in a distant third, with 2.13%. As of the 2020 presidential election, this is the last election in which a Democrat has won the presidency without carrying Vermont.
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