1941 Virginia gubernatorial election

none related races 1941 United States gubernatorial elections January 2025 September 2023 1941 Virginia gubernatorial election Virginia presidential no 1937 Virginia gubernatorial election 1937 1945 Virginia gubernatorial election 1945 November 4, 1941 1931 File:Colgate Darden (VA).png 150x150px Colgate Darden Democratic Party (United States) 98,680 80.6% File:Senator B Muse 1936.jpg Benjamin Muse Republican Party (United States) 21,896 17.9% 1941 Virginia gubernatorial election results map by county.svg 300px County and independent city resultsDarden: #7996e2 50–60% #6674de 60–70% #584cde 70–80% #3933e5 80–90% #0d056c >90%Muse: #e27f7f 50–60% #d75d5d 60–70% Governor James H. Price Democratic Party (United States) Colgate Darden Democratic Party (United States) In the 1941 Virginia gubernatorial election, incumbent Governor James H. Price, a Democrat, was unable to seek re-election due to term limits. U.S. Representative Colgate Darden was nominated by the Democratic Party to run against Republican former Virginia State Senator Benjamin Muse. Background For the previous four decades Virginia had almost completely disenfranchised its black and poor white populations through the use of a cumulative poll tax and literacy tests.Kousser J. Morgan The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-Party South, 1880-1910 1974 Yale University Press 178–181 0-300-01696-4 So restricted was suffrage that it has been calculated that a third of Virginia's electorate during the first half of the twentieth century comprised state employees and officeholders. This limited electorate allowed Virginian politics to be controlled for four decades by the Byrd Organization, as progressive "antiorganization" factions were rendered impotent by the inability of almost all their potential electorate to vote.Key Valdimer Orlando Southern Politics in State and Nation 1949 20–25 Historical fusion with the "Readjuster" Democrats,Heersink Boris Jenkins Jeffrey A. Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865-1968 March 19, 2020 217–221 Cambridge University Press 978-1107158436 defection of substantial proportions of the Northeast-aligned white electorate of the Shenandoah Valley and Southwest Virginia over free silver,Moger Allen The Rift in Virginia Democracy in 1896 The Journal of Southern History 1938 4 3 295–317 10.2307/2191291 2191291 and an early move towards a "lily white" Jim Crow party meant Republicans retained a small but permanent number of legislative seats and local offices in the western part of the state.Kevin Phillips (political commentator) Phillips Kevin P. The Emerging Republican Majority 193, 219 1969 Arlington House 0870000586 Nevertheless, in gubernatorial elections during this period the Republican vote was mostly in the nature of a protest, and in most elections between 1925 and 1949 turnout was higher in the Democratic primary than the general election.Heinemann Ronald Rozell Mark Milliken John G. The New Dominion: The Twentieth-Century Elections That Shaped Modern Virginia August 4, 2023 University of Virginia Press Charlottesville 9780813949727 Prelude to Revolution: The Rise and Fall of the Byrd Organization, 1925–49 Reconsolidation of Organization control The preceding gubernatorial election, for the only time in the Byrd machine's history, had seen it defeated in the primariesPrice was sufficiently popular among all sections of Virginia's extremely limited electorate that the Byrd machine did not run its own candidate against it.Politics and Patronage: Virginia's Senators and the Roosevelt Purges of 1938 Alvin L. Hall The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 82 3 July 1974 331–350 Virginia Historical Society https://www.jstor.org/stable/4247893 by the relatively liberal Price.'Sheep without a Shepherd': The New Deal Faction in the Virginia Democratic Party James R. Sweeney Presidential Studies Quarterly 29 2 June 1999 438–459 However, continuing conservative control of the state legislature and the complete failure of FDR's attempt to deny conservative Senators Byrd and Carter Glass federal patronage, meant that Price could not deliver significant reforms. This was seen in Roosevelt's antiorganization nomination to the Western District federal court, Floyd H. Roberts being defeated 9–72,https://voteview.com/rollcall/RS0760004 Confirmation of the Nomination of Floyd H. Roberts, of Virginia, to Be United States District Judge for the Western District of Virginia VoteView UCLA Department of Political Science and that Virginia's electorate is known to have been overwhelmingly opposed to Roberts. FDR also failed to have an antiorganization man installed as Attorney for that same district court,Koeniger A. Cash The New Deal and the States: Roosevelt Versus the Byrd Organization in Virginia The Journal of American History March 1982 68 4 876–896 Oxford University Press whilst organization leader Colgate Darden recaptured the Second Congressional District from New Dealer Norman R. Hamilton. By the 1940 Democratic State Convention, the liberals from three years back had been completely routed, and even such old New Dealers as John W. Flannagan Jr. were supporting Byrd. No strong opposition candidate could be found by Martin Hutchinson, and Darden's two primary opponents were state senators not allied with either party faction. Darden would win extremely easily in both the primary and the general election, with the ordinarily extremely low turnout being further reduced by the absence of many voters serving in World War II.110 The Democratic Party primary in Virginia: Tantamount to election no longer Larry Sabato Sabato Larry 1977 University of Virginia Institute of Government Democratic nomination Candidates Colgate Darden, U.S. Representative from Norfolk Vivian L. Page, State Senator from Norfolk Hudson Cary, State Senator from Henrico CountyWashington Daily News February 1, 1941 8 Mrs. Roosevelt Speaks Tonight 1941 Virginia Democratic gubernatorial primaryhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=351598 Our Campaigns VA Governor D Primary – August 05, 1941 Democratic Party (United States) Colgate W. Darden, Jr. 105,655 76.58% Democratic Party (United States) Vivian L. Page 19,526 14.15% Democratic Party (United States) Hudson Cary 12,793 9.27% 86,129 62.43% 137,974 4.60% Democratic Party (United States) General election Candidates Colgate Darden, U.S. Representative from Norfolk (Democratic) Benjamin Muse, former Democratic State Senator from Petersburg (Republican) Alice Burke, state party secretaryThe Case of Odell Waller and Virginia Justice, 1940-1942 Richard B. Sherman 9780870497339 229 1992 University of Tennessee Press from Richmond (Communist) Hilliard Bernstein, former state party secretaryRoanoke Probe Is Required The World-News March 10, 1941 Roanoke City, Virginia 2 from Richmond (Socialist) Results 1941 Virginia gubernatorial electionhttps://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=239645 Our Campaigns Virginia Governor Race, November 04, 1941 Democratic Party (United States) Colgate Darden 98,680 80.58% -2.20% Republican Party (United States) Benjamin Muse 21,896 17.88% +2.10% Communist Party USA Alice Burke 1,096 0.89% +0.11% Socialist Party of America Hilliard Bernstein 787 0.64% +0.64% 76,784 62.70% -4.30% 122,459 4.09% Democratic Party (United States) Results by county or independent city +1941 Virginia gubernatorial election by county or independent city Colgate W. Darden Jr.Democratic Benjamin MuseRepublican Alice BurkeCommunist Hilliard E. BernsteinSocialist Margin Total votes cast # % # % # % # % # % Accomack County 769 94.70% 36 4.43% 5 0.62% 2 0.25% 733 90.27% 812 Albemarle County 614 90.56% 59 8.70% 3 0.44% 2 0.29% 555 81.86% 678 Alleghany County 646 58.20% 452 40.72% 7 0.63% 5 0.45% 194 17.48% 1,110 Amelia County 214 82.95% 43 16.67% 1 0.39% 0 0.00% 171 66.28% 258 Amherst County 794 93.74% 31 3.66% 17 2.01% 5 0.59% 763 90.08% 847 Appomattox County 605 95.58% 26 4.11% 1 0.16% 1 0.16% 579 91.47% 633 Arlington County 2,302 82.27% 451 16.12% 25 0.89% 20 0.71% 1,851 66.15% 2,798 Augusta County 1,080 81.20% 242 18.20% 4 0.30% 4 0.30% 838 63.01% 1,330 Bath County 280 62.08% 163 36.14% 3 0.67% 5 1.11% 117 25.94% 451 Bedford County 795 85.85% 127 13.71% 4 0.43% 0 0.00% 668 72.14% 926 Bland County 433 59.64% 283 38.98% 4 0.55% 6 0.83% 150 20.66% 726 Botetourt County 779 73.77% 268 25.38% 8 0.76% 1 0.09% 511 48.39% 1,056 Brunswick County 508 97.69% 11 2.12% 1 0.19% 0 0.00% 497 95.58% 520 Buchanan County 1,482 75.27% 420 21.33% 33 1.68% 34 1.73% 1,062 53.94% 1,969 Buckingham County 411 91.33% 38 8.44% 0 0.00% 1 0.22% 373 82.89% 450 Campbell County 458 94.24% 19 3.91% 8 1.65% 1 0.21% 439 90.33% 486 Caroline County 299 91.16% 25 7.62% 1 0.30% 3 0.91% 274 83.54% 328 Carroll County 705 46.72% 762 50.50% 23 1.52% 19 1.26% -57 -3.78% 1,509 Charles City County 83 92.22% 4 4.44% 3 3.33% 0 0.00% 79 87.78% 90 Charlotte County 639 97.41% 12 1.83% 4 0.61% 1 0.15% 627 95.58% 656 Chesterfield County 590 84.89% 103 14.82% 2 0.29% 0 0.00% 487 70.07% 695 Clarke County 248 92.54% 18 6.72% 0 0.00% 2 0.75% 230 85.82% 268 Craig County 224 74.42% 75 24.92% 1 0.33% 1 0.33% 149 49.50% 301 Culpeper County 412 92.38% 31 6.95% 2 0.45% 1 0.22% 381 85.43% 446 Cumberland County 194 90.65% 19 8.88% 1 0.47% 0 0.00% 175 81.78% 214 Dickenson County 1,082 70.17% 429 27.82% 14 0.91% 17 1.10% 653 42.35% 1,542 Dinwiddie County 491 90.93% 49 9.07% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 442 81.85% 540 Elizabeth City County 356 90.36% 33 8.38% 2 0.51% 3 0.76% 323 81.98% 394 Essex County 104 90.43% 9 7.83% 1 0.87% 1 0.87% 95 82.61% 115 Fairfax County 2,298 80.74% 470 16.51% 49 1.72% 29 1.02% 1,828 64.23% 2,846 Fauquier County 651 90.04% 68 9.41% 3 0.41% 1 0.14% 583 80.64% 723 Floyd County 234 34.06% 446 64.92% 2 0.29% 5 0.73% -212 -30.86% 687 Fluvanna County 253 93.36% 16 5.90% 2 0.74% 0 0.00% 237 87.45% 271 Franklin County 889 83.08% 176 16.45% 4 0.37% 1 0.09% 713 66.64% 1,070 Frederick County 380 78.03% 106 21.77% 1 0.21% 0 0.00% 274 56.26% 487 Giles County 924 76.43% 265 21.92% 12 0.99% 8 0.66% 659 54.51% 1,209 Gloucester County 389 91.10% 35 8.20% 2 0.47% 1 0.23% 354 82.90% 427 Goochland County 323 92.29% 17 4.86% 6 1.71% 4 1.14% 306 87.43% 350 Grayson County 2,042 45.67% 2,379 53.21% 26 0.58% 24 0.54% -337 -7.54% 4,471 Greene County 127 82.47% 23 14.94% 2 1.30% 2 1.30% 104 67.53% 154 Greensville County 280 93.96% 17 5.70% 1 0.34% 0 0.00% 263 88.26% 298 Halifax County 1,388 98.02% 14 0.99% 13 0.92% 1 0.07% 1,374 97.03% 1,416 Hanover County 696 84.67% 88 10.71% 24 2.92% 14 1.70% 608 73.97% 822 Henrico County 386 77.82% 98 19.76% 3 0.60% 9 1.81% 288 58.06% 496 Henry County 385 91.67% 30 7.14% 3 0.71% 2 0.48% 355 84.52% 420 Highland County 233 59.90% 150 38.56% 5 1.29% 1 0.26% 83 21.34% 389 Isle of Wight County 515 96.62% 17 3.19% 1 0.19% 0 0.00% 498 93.43% 533 James City County 91 91.00% 9 9.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 82 82.00% 100 King and Queen County 123 90.44% 8 5.88% 3 2.21% 2 1.47% 115 84.56% 136 King George County 132 85.71% 16 10.39% 4 2.60% 2 1.30% 116 75.32% 154 King William County 231 95.45% 11 4.55% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 220 90.91% 242 Lancaster County 256 87.97% 33 11.34% 0 0.00% 2 0.69% 223 76.63% 291 Lee County 2,331 81.16% 407 14.17% 81 2.82% 53 1.85% 1,924 66.99% 2,872 Loudoun County 720 92.78% 54 6.96% 2 0.26% 0 0.00% 666 85.82% 776 Louisa County 966 86.40% 125 11.18% 15 1.34% 12 1.07% 841 75.22% 1,118 Lunenburg County 316 96.34% 11 3.35% 1 0.30% 0 0.00% 305 92.99% 328 Madison County 229 74.59% 72 23.45% 4 1.30% 2 0.65% 157 51.14% 307 Mathews County 341 94.46% 19 5.26% 0 0.00% 1 0.28% 322 89.20% 361 Mecklenburg County 521 94.04% 28 5.05% 5 0.90% 0 0.00% 493 88.99% 554 Middlesex County 205 97.62% 5 2.38% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 200 95.24% 210 Montgomery County 810 73.04% 288 25.97% 5 0.45% 6 0.54% 522 47.07% 1,109 Nansemond County 426 97.93% 9 2.07% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 417 95.86% 435 Nelson County 1,077 91.66% 70 5.96% 21 1.79% 7 0.60% 1,007 85.70% 1,175 New Kent County 105 91.30% 9 7.83% 1 0.87% 0 0.00% 96 83.48% 115 Norfolk County 1,366 97.85% 24 1.72% 2 0.14% 4 0.29% 1,342 96.13% 1,396 Northampton County 407 97.14% 12 2.86% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 395 94.27% 419 Northumberland County 221 90.95% 18 7.41% 3 1.23% 1 0.41% 203 83.54% 243 Nottoway County 326 90.30% 33 9.14% 2 0.55% 0 0.00% 293 81.16% 361 Orange County 422 92.95% 24 5.29% 1 0.22% 7 1.54% 398 87.67% 454 Page County 987 77.53% 277 21.76% 3 0.24% 6 0.47% 710 55.77% 1,273 Patrick County 788 93.25% 47 5.56% 7 0.83% 3 0.36% 741 87.69% 845 Pittsylvania County 1,138 91.85% 80 6.46% 14 1.13% 7 0.56% 1,058 85.39% 1,239 Powhatan County 228 91.94% 18 7.26% 2 0.81% 0 0.00% 210 84.68% 248 Prince Edward County 400 91.12% 34 7.74% 2 0.46% 3 0.68% 366 83.37% 439 Prince George County 164 82.00% 33 16.50% 2 1.00% 1 0.50% 131 65.50% 200 Prince William County 362 90.27% 34 8.48% 4 1.00% 1 0.25% 328 81.80% 401 Princess Anne County 838 97.56% 21 2.44% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 817 95.11% 859 Pulaski County 1,037 87.07% 145 12.17% 4 0.34% 5 0.42% 892 74.90% 1,191 Rappahannock County 198 88.79% 23 10.31% 0 0.00% 2 0.90% 175 78.48% 223 Richmond County 182 93.81% 11 5.67% 1 0.52% 0 0.00% 171 88.14% 194 Roanoke County 1,273 67.32% 592 31.31% 18 0.95% 8 0.42% 681 36.01% 1,891 Rockbridge County 778 82.94% 155 16.52% 3 0.32% 2 0.21% 623 66.42% 938 Rockingham County 1,847 59.54% 1,168 37.65% 29 0.93% 58 1.87% 679 21.89% 3,102 Russell County 2,211 72.33% 780 25.52% 35 1.14% 31 1.01% 1,431 46.81% 3,057 Scott County 1,423 53.64% 1,147 43.23% 50 1.88% 33 1.24% 276 10.40% 2,653 Shenandoah County 1,247 47.31% 1,376 52.20% 5 0.19% 8 0.30% -129 -4.89% 2,636 Smyth County 1,620 61.74% 959 36.55% 27 1.03% 18 0.69% 661 25.19% 2,624 Southampton County 782 98.36% 13 1.64% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 769 96.73% 795 Spotsylvania County 255 91.40% 20 7.17% 1 0.36% 3 1.08% 235 84.23% 279 Stafford County 185 78.06% 49 20.68% 2 0.84% 1 0.42% 136 57.38% 237 Surry County 241 93.77% 15 5.84% 1 0.39% 0 0.00% 226 87.94% 257 Sussex County 419 95.88% 18 4.12% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 401 91.76% 437 Tazewell County 1,106 72.33% 375 24.53% 18 1.18% 30 1.96% 731 47.81% 1,529 Warren County 638 93.69% 41 6.02% 1 0.15% 1 0.15% 597 87.67% 681 Warwick County 115 87.79% 16 12.21% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 99 75.57% 131 Washington County 1,030 72.74% 356 25.14% 18 1.27% 12 0.85% 674 47.60% 1,416 Westmoreland County 304 91.29% 27 8.11% 2 0.60% 0 0.00% 277 83.18% 333 Wise County 3,145 89.83% 334 9.54% 12 0.34% 10 0.29% 2,811 80.29% 3,501 Wythe County 749 68.21% 339 30.87% 6 0.55% 4 0.36% 410 37.34% 1,098 York County 203 93.12% 11 5.05% 3 1.38% 1 0.46% 192 88.07% 218 Alexandria City 539 90.44% 47 7.89% 6 1.01% 4 0.67% 492 82.55% 596 Bristol City 1,087 93.30% 69 5.92% 6 0.52% 3 0.26% 1,018 87.38% 1,165 Buena Vista City 340 82.93% 65 15.85% 4 0.98% 1 0.24% 275 67.07% 410 Charlottesville City 498 91.38% 44 8.07% 3 0.55% 0 0.00% 454 83.30% 545 Clifton Forge City 676 78.06% 169 19.52% 11 1.27% 10 1.15% 507 58.55% 866 Danville City 640 93.16% 40 5.82% 6 0.87% 1 0.15% 600 87.34% 687 Fredericksburg City 974 91.71% 63 5.93% 20 1.88% 5 0.47% 911 85.78% 1,062 Hampton City 243 95.67% 9 3.54% 1 0.39% 1 0.39% 234 92.13% 254 Harrisonburg City 1,144 76.32% 332 22.15% 11 0.73% 12 0.80% 812 54.17% 1,499 Hopewell City 904 77.86% 216 18.60% 30 2.58% 11 0.95% 688 59.26% 1,161 Lynchburg City 828 88.56% 95 10.16% 5 0.53% 7 0.75% 733 78.40% 935 Martinsville City 821 86.60% 85 8.97% 27 2.85% 15 1.58% 736 77.64% 948 Newport News City 556 86.47% 73 11.35% 9 1.40% 5 0.78% 483 75.12% 643 Norfolk City 4,005 96.60% 118 2.85% 16 0.39% 7 0.17% 3,887 93.75% 4,146 Petersburg City 532 81.97% 113 17.41% 1 0.15% 3 0.46% 419 64.56% 649 Portsmouth City 1,465 93.79% 78 4.99% 10 0.64% 9 0.58% 1,387 88.80% 1,562 Radford City 676 74.70% 216 23.87% 5 0.55% 8 0.88% 460 50.83% 905 Richmond City 11,715 92.65% 724 5.73% 131 1.04% 75 0.59% 10,991 86.92% 12,645 Roanoke City 1,964 71.97% 713 26.13% 36 1.32% 16 0.59% 1,251 45.84% 2,729 South Norfolk City 305 95.31% 9 2.81% 1 0.31% 5 1.56% 296 92.50% 320 Staunton City 480 86.64% 71 12.82% 0 0.00% 3 0.54% 409 73.83% 554 Suffolk City 379 98.19% 6 1.55% 0 0.00% 1 0.26% 373 96.63% 386 Williamsburg City 96 91.43% 8 7.62% 0 0.00% 1 0.95% 88 83.81% 105 Winchester City 308 79.18% 81 20.82% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 227 58.35% 389Totals98,68080.58%21,89617.88%1,0960.89%7870.64%76,78462.70%122,459 Counties and independent cities that flipped from Democratic to Republican Floyd Shenadoah Notes References Gubernatorial 1941 Virginia Category:November 1941 in the United States