Landslide victory

Here is an example of a landslide victory when 49 out of the 50 states gave the most votes to Ronald Reagan, 1984

A landslide victory is when one candidate or political party in an election receives a lot more votes or seats than their opponent.

An example of a landslide victory is when Ronald Reagan won the 1984 United States presidential election by winning 49 out of the 50 states. Other examples include when Tony Blair and his Labour Party won the United Kingdom general elections of 1997 and 2001^[1] and when Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the presidency by nearly 13,000,000 votes in the 2018 Mexican general election.

Landslide Victory Media

Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's 2011 landslide victory in light blue.
Map displaying Labor's landslide victory at the 2021 Western Australian state election. Seats won by Labor are in red, seats won by the Liberals are in blue and seats won by the Nationals are in green.
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.
Ramon Magsaysay (light green)'s 1953 landslide victory.
Results of the 2016 Samoan general election by constituency.
The Direction – Social Democracy landslide victory in 2012.
In the 2020 election, the Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen won 8.17 million votes, 57.1% of the votes cast, a historic landslide victory.
This map shows the Conservative Party landslide victory in 1983.
This map shows the Labour Party landslide victory in 1997.

↑ Budge, Ian: "Election Research" (2011); Badie, Bertrand; Berg-Schlosser, Dirk; Morlino, Leonardo (editors), International Encyclopedia of Political Science, page 726–731, Los Angeles, Sage Publications, isbn 978-1-4129-5963-6

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