Defining the "biggest landslide" in the UK is difficult to do - because different people have a different idea of what qualifies as the "biggest" landslide. This is in part due to the way in which the UK electoral system does not neatly translate popular support into seats - for example, in 1997 the winning party won more than 400 seats in the House of Commons for only the third time since 1900, but it did so with a lower share of the vote than the losing party had in the 1951, 1955, 1959, 1964 or 1970 general elections!
So disagreement can arise depending on whether or not you want to judge the biggest landslide in terms of seats, votes or a reasoned mix of both. The answer also changes depending on whether you count elections before 1928, when every adult man and woman could vote on equal terms (equal suffrage). These are all the possible ways of describing the biggest election landslide:
There are those who would claim that the 1931 general election holds the record for the biggest landslide by most or all measures; this is not the case, and I have purposely excluded the 1931 election in this answer for the following reasons.
In 1931, the newly formed National Government - a grand coalition between most of the Conservative Party, the Liberal Party (until 1933) and its more right-wing partner the Liberal National Party (who would join the Toriespermanently30 years later) a small section of the Labour Party and a handful of independents - won 554 of 615 (90%) seats with 67.2% of the vote.
Within this National Government, 470 seats and 55% of the votes went to the Conservative Party. This is the biggest number of seats won by any single party ever and the biggest share of the vote - however, almost all election scholars discount the 1931 election from consideration. There are two reasons for this: first, only 421 of those MPs were actually elected. In 49 constituencies won by Conservative candidates, no election was held because no other party nominated a candidate to challenge the Tory, resulting in the Conservative being automatically chosen to serve as an MP.
Second, of the 469 Conservative candidates who actually had to run for election, only 79 had to compete against at least one other National Government candidate. In 390 constituencies, the Conservatives were the only National Government partner to stand for election, usually facing just Labour and no one else. As such, in those 390 seats, the Conservatives also won the support of many Liberal Party voters (who had made up 24% of the electorate in 1929) and a small number of old Labour supporters who backed the coalition. This means the Conservative share of the vote is dramatically andartificiallyinflated in the 1931 election; when Liberals nominated more candidates against the Conservatives in 1935, the party did not fare nearly as astronomically well, despite the continuing popularity of the National Government.
As such, 1931 is discounted from the list of biggest landslides due to the unique factors behind the scale of the Tory win (and the fact the Conservatives did not form a single-party majority government after the victory).
Labour. They were the only party the country trusted to introduce the Welfare State, so they won a landslide victory.
Richard Nixon over George McGovern for the US Presidency.
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Malpa landslide happened in 1998.
'Landslide'.
Means they just won an election by a landslide.
Labour. They were the only party the country trusted to introduce the Welfare State, so they won a landslide victory.
Landslide
roosevelt won a landslide victory!
If the landslide refers to land, it would be: El derrumbe fue una locura. If the landslide refers to an election victory, it would be: El triunfo era aplastante.
Joe Biden won the 2020 election.
The biggest popular vote landslide in a presidential election in the 20th century was in 1972, when Richard Nixon defeated George McGovern. Nixon received nearly 47 million popular votes, winning by a margin of over 23 million votes. This represented about 60.7% of the total popular vote, the largest in the 20th century.
roosevelt won a landslide victory!
a majority or a landslide victory.
Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in a landslide in the Presidential Election of 1980.
Barack Obama's election win in 2008 was considered significant, but it was not a landslide victory. He won by a comfortable margin, earning 365 electoral votes compared to his opponent's 173. However, it was not a historic landslide like some past elections.