George W. Bush Republican George W. Bush Republican The 2004 United States presidential election in Virginia took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election.

Virginia was won by incumbent President George W. Bush by an 8.20% margin of victory.

The state had voted for the Republican candidate in all presidential elections since 1952 except for 1964's Democratic landslide.

Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Fairfax County since Calvin Coolidge in 1924.

[6][7] For about 80 years after the Civil War, Virginia was, like most other former Confederate states, reliably Democratic at the presidential level.

After the passage of civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, Virginia turned strongly Republican at the presidential level, being the only former Confederate state to vote for Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter in 1976.

Much of the Republican strength in the state was based in the large and growing Richmond- and Washington, D.C.-area suburbs of Henrico, Chesterfield, and Fairfax Counties.

He was also the first Democrat since Harry S. Truman in 1948 to carry the independent city of Danville and Albermarle County.