# Carter and Mondale *Event record: the 1976 Carter–Mondale result in Wright County, Minnesota, as carried in the project's at-issue record.* In the 1976 presidential election, Wright County, Minnesota, gave the Carter and Mondale ticket 56.08 percent of its vote, according to the project's at-issue record, which takes the figure from the county's certified canvass series.[^1] The same record states that the county has not given a Democratic presidential ticket a majority since.[^1] The project's Wright County claims matrix lists the certified Wright County canvasses for 1964, 1968, 1976 and 1984, sourced to the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library. It records that each was independently re-verified on September 2, 2026.[^2] The matrix also records that a 1970 U.S. Senate row failed re-verification and was withdrawn as gap G-10.[^2] No page of the 1976 canvass is on file in this record. The 56.08 percent figure and the no-majority-since statement therefore rest on the at-issue record, not on a cited canvass page.[^1] ## When The at-issue item is dated 1976.[^1] It calls Wright County "Humphrey's county" and states: "The last DFL win in Humphrey's county came two years before he died in it."[^1] The record does not name the later elections behind the no-majority-since statement. Of the Legislative Reference Library canvasses the matrix lists as re-verified, the 1984 canvass is the only one after 1976. The matrix row gives no vote shares for any of them.[^2] ## In the at-issue record The item is AI-Humphrey-061, in the Humphrey package. It appears under the section heading *The Waverly Promise & the Boundary County Edition* at rank 61, and it lists one source, of kind canvass, from the domain lrl.mn.gov.[^1] The item's anchor is a March 2025 White House presidential action, *Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections*. The item gives its reason for that anchor as "the canvass series is the record".[^3] The record does not state how the presidential action bears on the 1976 Wright County figure. The action's text is not among the record's source passages.[^3] ## In the Minnesota record ### When - 1976: Wright County gives the Carter and Mondale ticket 56.08 percent, per the at-issue record.[^1] - March 2025: The White House publishes the presidential action that the at-issue item uses as its anchor.[^3] - September 2, 2026: The project's matrix records independent re-verification of the 1964, 1968, 1976 and 1984 Wright County canvasses and withdraws the 1970 U.S. Senate row.[^2] ## Notes [^1]: Minnesota wiki project, *At-issue record AI-Humphrey-061* (source: Wright_Claims_Exposure_Matrix_2026-09-02.md, row W6.5) — states the 1976 Wright County figure of 56.08% for Carter and Mondale, the statement that no Democratic presidential ticket has carried a county majority since, and the "last DFL win" sentence. It lists the source domain as lrl.mn.gov. No URL for the 1976 canvass is on file in this record. [^2]: Minnesota wiki project, *Wright Claims Exposure Matrix, rows V1–V6* (September 2, 2026) — lists the Wright County certified canvasses for 1964, 1968, 1976 and 1984 as independently re-verified, and records that the 1970 U.S. Senate row failed re-verification and was withdrawn (gap G-10). The row's cited records are the Minnesota Legislative Reference Library election results file, https://www.lrl.mn.gov/archive/sessions/electionresults/1968-11-05-g-man.pdf, and the Minnesota Secretary of State 2020 margin map, https://www.sos.mn.gov/media/hzbbrzge [^3]: The White House, *Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections* (presidential action, March 2025) — the anchor document named by at-issue item AI-Humphrey-061. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/