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This was the biggest landslide in Philippine history. The legislators didn't serve until 1945 though, due to World War II. Starting in 1987, the Philippines evolved into a multi-party system , and coupled with the introduction of party-list elections in 1998, no party was able to win a landslide, much less a majority of seats, in the House of ...
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 ...
The incumbent in 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson. His second term expired at noon on January 20, 1969. In the election of 1964, incumbent Democratic U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson won the largest popular vote landslide in U.S. presidential election history over Republican U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater.
The Carter campaign was aided early on by the rally 'round the flag effect from the hostage crisis, but as the crisis lasted to election day, it became a detriment. [2] Reagan won the election in a landslide with 489 Electoral College votes to Carter's 49, and 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%. Anderson won 6.6% of the popular vote ...
Nixon won the election that spawned Watergate in a walk, taking 60.7 percent of the popular vote and winning every state except one (Massachusetts). 5. Ronald Reagan over Walter Mondale (1984)
Reagan won re-election in a landslide victory, carrying 525 electoral votes, 49 states, and 58.8% of the popular vote. Mondale won 13 electoral votes: 10 from his home state of Minnesota, which he won by a narrow margin of 0.18% (3,761 votes), and 3 from the District of Columbia, which has always voted overwhelmingly for the Democratic ...
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1932. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York and the vice presidential nominee of the 1920 presidential election.
Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide election in 1984 — when the country had 100 million fewer people than it does now. ... vote of any presidential contender in US history, with ...