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- 1948 – In the first election held after the end of the First World War and the first election after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment (which gave equal votes to men and women), Charlottesville went overwhelmingly democratic in the election when Cox and Roosevelt were give a plurality of 700 over the Republican nominees. The total vote cast in the city was 1,554, the largest ever balloted in a presidential election.
- 1948 – In one of the greatest election upsets in American history, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic nominee, defeated heavily favored Republican Governor of New York Thomas E. Dewey, becoming the third president to succeed to the presidency upon his predecessor’s death and be elected to a full term. Truman carried the City of Charlottesville with 45.35% of the 3,367 votes cast.
- 1976 – Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter (D) became the first candidate from the Deep South since the Civil War to be elected president as he defeated incumbent Gerald R. Ford (R). Carter won 49.36% of the votes in the City of Charlottesville.