In 1944, Earl Kemp Long, who had been governor from 1939 to 1940, ran for lieutenant governor but faced a Democratic runoff against J. Emile Verret, a school board member from Iberia Parish.
Similarly, Wade O. Martin, Jr., (1911-1990) the Democratic nominee for secretary of state for the first time in 1944, had similarly been nominated in the primary and faced no runoff election.