This is a list of elections that have been explicitly declared landslide victories by various sources. A large number of elections have been labelled as landslide victories due to one political party or candidate winning by a significantly large margin.
Canada edit
Federal elections edit
| Election year | Landslide victor | Seats won | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | Liberal Party of Canada | Liberals: 171 Conservatives: 39 Social Credit: 17 CCF: 7 Reconstruction: 1 |
Controversy over R. B. Bennett's handling of the Great Depression led to his Conservative government collapsing. The Conservative majority government was decisively defeated by a much larger Liberal majority, with the Liberal leader William Lyon Mackenzie King returning to power. | [1] |
| 1940 | Liberal Party of Canada | William Lyon Mackenzie King and the Liberals built upon their previous 1935 majority government of 173 out of 245 seats, gaining six more seats. Having won 73% of the seats, it was the largest proportion of the House of Commons seats won by the Liberals in their history. | [2] | |
| 1958 | Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | The minority government of Progressive Conservative Prime Minister John Diefenbaker called for a snap election as a response to Lester B. Pearson's speech calling for Diefenbaker to resign. Diefenbaker and the Progressive Conservatives won the largest House of Commons majority in the country's history, winning 208 out of 265 seats. Pearson's Liberals lost 56 seats. | [2][3][4] | |
| 1984 | Progressive Conservative Party of Canada | [5][6] | ||
| 1993 | Liberal Party of Canada | A Jean Chrétien-led Liberal Party won 177 out of 295 seats. | [2] | |
| 2015 | Liberal Party of Canada | The Liberals, under the leadership of Justin Trudeau, defeated the incumbent Stephen Harper majority government that had majority status since 2011 and governed since 2006. | [7] |
Provincial elections edit
| Election | Landslide victor | Seats won | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 Alberta general election | Alberta Social Credit Party | Social Credit: 56 Liberals: 5 PCs: 2 |
The Social Credit Party, led by William Aberhart, won all but seven seats in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The incumbent United Farmers of Alberta lost all 36 of their seats. | [2][8] |
| 1973 Quebec general election | Quebec Liberal Party | Liberals: 102 PQ: 6 Social Credit: 2 |
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| 1982 New Brunswick general election | Progressive Conservative Party of New Brunswick | PCs: 39 Liberals: 18 NDP: 1 |
Richard Hatfield's government held onto its majority, gaining nine seats. The rival Liberals lost ten seats. | [10] |
| 1987 New Brunswick general election | New Brunswick Liberal Association | Liberals: 58 | The Liberals, under the leadership of Frank McKenna, won every seat in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick. | [11] |
| 1993 Prince Edward Island general election | Prince Edward Island Liberal Party | Liberals: 31 PCs: 1 |
Canada's first female premier, Catherine Callbeck, was elected after swiftly replacing Joe Ghiz as Liberal leader. The Liberals won all but one seat in the province's final election with dual-member constituencies. | [2] |
| 2001 British Columbia general election | British Columbia Liberal Party | Liberals: 77 NDP: 2 |
The BC Liberals, led by Gordon Campbell, won all but two seats in the province, decisively defeating the incumbent NDP government. | [12] |
New Zealand edit
| Election year | Landslide victor | Seats won | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | New Zealand Labour Party | Labour: 65 National: 33 Green: 10 ACT: 10 Māori: 2 |
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party was re-elected with a majority government. The 2020 election marked the first time any lone New Zealand political party has won a majority government since the implementation of mixed-member proportional representation in 1996. | [13][14] |
United States edit
Presidential elections edit
| Election year | Landslide victor | Electoral vote distribution | Description | Source declaring a landslide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Ronald Reagan | Ronald Reagan: 489 Jimmy Carter: 49 |
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References edit
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- ^ Hayday, Matthew (2005). Bilingual today, united tomorrow : official languages in education and Canadian federalism. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 168. ISBN 0-7735-2960-8. OCLC 646788258.
- ^ Blake, Raymond (2007). Transforming the Nation: Canada and Brian Mulroney. McGill-Queen's University Press. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-7735-7570-7. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ Tharoor, Ishaan (2015-10-20). "Canada's Justin Trudeau leads a Liberal landslide in stunning election victory". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ McGaughey, William (1992). A U.S.-Mexico-Canada Free-trade Agreement: Do We Just Say No?. Thistlerose Publications. p. 48. ISBN 978-0-9605630-2-9. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ Penniman, Howard Rae (1981). Canada at the Polls, 1979 and 1980: A Study of the General Elections. AEI Studies. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. p. 213. ISBN 978-0-8447-3472-9. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ Graham, Ron (2011). The last act : Pierre Trudeau, the gang of eight, and the fight for Canada. Toronto: Allen Lane Canada. ISBN 978-0-670-06662-9. OCLC 687881646.
- ^ Watts, Ronald L.; Brown, Douglas M. (1990). Canada: The State of the Federation 1990. Queen's University, Institute of Intergovernmental Relations. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-88911-570-5. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ Gibson, Gordon (2009). A New Look at Canadian Indian Policy: Respect the Collective, Promote the Individual. Vancouver: Fraser Institute. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-88975-243-6. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ "New Zealand election: Jacinda Ardern's Labour Party scores landslide win". BBC News. 2020-10-17. Retrieved 2020-12-07.
- ^ Roy, Eleanor Ainge; Graham-McLay, Charlotte (17 October 2020). "Jacinda Ardern hails 'very strong mandate' after New Zealand election landslide". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 17 October 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
- ^ Campbell, W. Joseph (2020-10-14). "Epic miscalls and landslides unforeseen: The exceptional catalog of polling failure". The Conversation. Retrieved 2020-12-07.