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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.
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 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 ...
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.
Ronald Reagan won 54 million votes in his landslide election in 1984 — when the country had 100 million fewer people than it does now. ... Trump clinches biggest popular vote count by a ...
Trump's 49.9% landslide In truth, however, when — in a two-party system — you fail to get a majority of the votes, that is the very definition of a no-mandate election. It is the very opposite ...
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 ...
Any argument that the 2024 election was a "landslide" is misleading. It relies on a combination of recency bias and using the wrong measuring sticks. The right way to measure an election's closeness.