Host City Selection
The vote occurred on May 12, 1970, at the 69th IOC Session in Amsterdam, Netherlands. One blank vote was cast in the second and final round. One factor favoring Montreal was that the IOC did not want the Summer games hosted in a superpower during the Cold War for fears of political backlash, which proved well-founded with the Olympic boycotts of 1980 and 1984.
| 1976 Summer Olympics bidding results | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Country | Round 1 | Round 2 | |||
| Montreal | Canada | 25 | 41 | |||
| Moscow | Soviet Union | 28 | 28 | |||
| Los Angeles | United States | 17 | — | |||
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