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  2. 1945 United Kingdom general election - Wikipedia

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    The final result of the election showed Labour to have won a landslide victory, [2] making a net gain of 239 seats, winning 49.7% of the popular vote and achieving a majority of 146 seats, thus allowing Attlee to be appointed prime minister.

  3. List of United States presidential elections by popular vote ...

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    Thus it is possible for the winner of the popular vote to end up losing the election, an outcome that has occurred on five occasions, most recently in the 2016 election. This is because presidential elections are indirect elections; the votes cast on Election Day are not cast directly for a candidate, but for members of the Electoral College ...

  4. Landslide victory - Wikipedia

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    A map of the vote by province in 1940 shows the scale of the Liberals' landslide victory. A map of the vote by province in 1984 shows the scale of the Progressive Conservatives' landslide victory. In a Canadian federal election, a landslide victory occurs when a political party gains a significant majority of the House of Commons of Canada.

  5. Electoral college results: 486-52. Electoral college vote percentage: 90.33. LBJ won 44 states and 61.1 percent of the popular vote, the highest percentage since the election of 1820 (which you'll ...

  6. List of United States presidential elections by Electoral ...

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    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 ...

  7. List of close election results - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of close election results on the national level and within administrative divisions.It lists results that have been decided by a margin of less than 1 vote in 1,000 (a margin of less than 0.1 percentage points): single-winner elections where the winning candidate was less than 0.1% ahead of the second-placed candidate, as well as party-list elections where a party was less than ...

  8. Polling for United States presidential elections - Wikipedia

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    Roosevelt won in the largest landslide since the uncontested 1820 election, winning every state except Maine and Vermont, since his New Deal programs were popular with the American people (apart from the respondents to the Literary Digest poll). Although Landon said that the New Deal was costly and ineffective and Roosevelt was slowly molding ...

  9. Historic win gives Mexico's Sheinbaum a landslide ... - AOL

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    MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Claudia Sheinbaum, a climate scientist and protege of Mexico's popular outgoing president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, won a landslide to become the country's first female ...