1944 United States presidential election in Virginia 1944 United States presidential election in Virginia The 1944 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 7, 1944, throughout the 48 contiguous states. Voters chose eleven representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president. Virginia voted for the Democratic nominee, incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt, over the Republican nominee, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Roosevelt ultimately won the national election with 53.39 percent of the vote. This is currently the last election in Virginia where the Democratic candidate won by a double-digit margin. It is also the last occasion the
Franklin D. Roosevelt (Paris Métro) area in the 1770s and was guillotined during the Reign of Terror. The line 9 station opened when the line was extended from Trocadéro to Saint-Augustin on 27 May 1923 and was called "Rond-Point des Champs-Élysées", or just "Rond-Point". On 6 October 1942 a connection between the two stations was opened and the new station was renamed "Marbeuf–Rond-Point des Champs-Elysees" (or more often "Champs-Elysees–Marbeuf"). This new station became Franklin D. Roosevelt station in 1946 when the nearby "Avenue Victor-Emmanuel III" was renamed "Franklin D. Roosevelt Avenue", in honor of the American president who had been an ally of France during