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A landslide victory is an election result in which the winning candidate or party achieves a decisive victory by an overwhelming margin, securing a very large majority of votes or seats far beyond the typical competitive outcome.
The official opposition statement argues: "Don't be fooled. Proposition 36 will lead to more crime, not less. It reignites the failed war on drugs, makes simple drug possession a felony, and wastes billions on prisons, while slashing crucial funding for victims, crime prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation. This puts prisons first and guts ...
Using a public-private approach, efforts should be made to combine employment, community involvement and family to prevent crime; move away from a federal policy of increased incarceration; reverse the "trickle down" policy of federal anti-crime programs affecting neighborhoods to a "bubble-up" process emanating from the local level; and ...
She has vowed to improve security but has given few details and the election, the most violent in Mexico's modern history with 38 candidates murdered, has reinforced massive crime problems.
In a May report, the Leadership Conference Education Fund warned that hate crimes tended to spike around presidential elections in the past four election cycles, citing data from the FBI.
The 2024 Queensland state election was held on 26 October 2024. [3] Polls prior to the election held that the chance of a Liberal-National party landslide was a probability. [4] It is widely believed that Crisafulli's ambiguity on the issue of abortion caused polls to narrow before the election. [5]
A leader of the effort to recall California Gov. Gavin Newsom is funding a recount in a Nevada County election beset by conspiracy theories and claims of voter fraud.
There is a spectrum between safe and marginal seats. Supposedly safe seats can still change hands in a landslide election, such as Enfield Southgate being lost by the Conservatives (and then-potential future party leader Michael Portillo) to Labour at the 1997 UK general election, whilst other seats may remain marginal despite large national swings, such as Gedling, which Labour narrowly won ...