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1981 – Ferdinand Marcos won with 89% of the vote, and won in every province, with the main opposition coalition boycotting the election. This is the largest landslide in history. 1998 – Joseph Estrada won with 40% of the vote. His main opponent, Jose de Venecia, received just 16%, or a margin of 24%.
The margin of victory in a presidential election is the difference between the number of Electoral College votes garnered by the candidate with an absolute majority of electoral votes (since 1964, it has been 270 out of 538) and the number received by the second place candidate (currently in the range of 2 to 538, a margin of one vote is only possible with an odd total number of electors or a ...
Following the landslide defeat of former president Herbert Hoover at the previous presidential election in 1932, combined with devastating congressional losses that year, the Republican Party was largely seen as rudderless. In truth, Hoover maintained control of the party machinery and was hopeful of making a comeback, but any such hopes were ...
As we learned in the 10 closest elections of all time, many races are close and we don't know until Election Night who won. But some campaigns are over before they really ever begin. But some ...
In a post-election analysis published Monday, Rasmussen said Trump's 2024 election win was significant but not a landslide. "A realistic assessment of the results shows that it was not a landslide ...
The University of Florida Election Lab estimates as of Friday that turnout in 2024 will be about 62.3% of the voting-eligible population, down from the high-water mark of the modern era of more ...
[30] [31] The election saw multiple third-party candidates, [32] and there were over a million write-in votes cast. [33] During the 2016 election, "pre-election polls fueled high-profile predictions that Hillary Clinton's likelihood of winning the presidency was about 90 percent, with estimates ranging from 71 to over 99 percent."
Westminster elections are held under the first-past-the-post system. Labour landslide flags how UK elections deliver wins that do not match votes Skip to main content