Landslide victory

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 considerably more votes or seats than their opponent.

A notable example of a landslide victory is the 1984 United States presidential election when Ronald Reagan won 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 and when Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the presidency by nearly 13,000,000 votes in the 2018 Mexican general election.

Landslide Victory Media

• 2021 Western Australian state election - Simple Results.svg

  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.

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  Map by municipalities of FHC's landslide victory in 1998.

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  A map of the vote by province in 1958 shows the scale of the Progressive Conservatives' landslide victory.

• A map of the vote by province in 1984 shows the scale of the Progressive Conservatives' landslide victory.

• Results of the Malaysian election of 2004. Barisan Nasional won the constituencies in blue.

• 1953 Philippine presidential election results per province.png

  Ramon Magsaysay (light green)'s 1953 landslide victory.

• 1991 Portuguese legislative election - Results.svg

  District map that shows the scale of the 1991 Social Democrats' landslide victory.

• 2022 Portuguese legislative election - Vote Strength.svg

  District map that shows the scale of the 2022 Socialists' landslide victory.

• 2006 Samoan general election (results by constituency).svg

  Results of the 2006 Samoan general election by constituency.

Other websites

• Landslide Definition in Politics Archived 2015-03-25 at the Wayback Machine