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This article lists those who were potential candidates for the Republican nomination for Vice President of the United States in the 1976 election. At the 1976 Republican National Convention, incumbent President Gerald Ford narrowly won the presidential nomination over former California Governor Ronald Reagan. Ford had decided not to pick Vice President Nelson Rockefeller as his running mate, due to Rockefeller's unpopularity with the right wing of the Republican Party. Ford chose Kansas Senator Bob Dole as his running mate, instead. Dole was acceptable to the conservative wing of the party, and Ford hoped that Dole would help the ticket win the western states and the agricultural vote. The Ford-Dole ticket lost the general election to the Carter-Mondale ticket. Though he did not win the nomination, Reagan announced before the convention that he would pick Senator Richard Schweiker of Pennsylvania as his running mate.