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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.
But Clinton did run away with the Electoral College vote, winning 370 electoral votes in 1992 and 379 in 1996. Even those strong victories are dwarfed by Ronald Reagan’s 1984 win, a true landslide.
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 ...
In a United States presidential election, the popular vote is the total number or the percentage of votes cast for a candidate by voters in the 50 states and Washington, D.C.; the candidate who gains the most votes nationwide is said to have won the popular vote.
The party of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen declared a landslide victory in a general election on Sunday, a vote that critics widely dismissed as a sham aimed at cementing the party’s rule ...
Oct. 8—City Councilor Joaquín Baca was the only member on the dais whose hand shot up when it came time to vote for a bill aimed at lowering vacancy rates in Downtown Albuquerque. After ...
A voter does have the option to vote for candidates of different political parties if they wish, but if the largest group of voters have strong party loyalty, there is nothing the other voters or parties can do to prevent a landslide. While many criticize block voting's tendency to create landslide victories, some cite it as a strength.
That election ended in a near-landslide for Reagan, who won the popular vote by nearly 10 percentage points. The outcome, said the New York Times, ...