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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 ...
The map of the Electoral College in 1956 shows the scale of Dwight D. Eisenhower's landslide victory. The map of the Electoral College in 1964 shows the scale of Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory. The map of the Electoral College in 1972 shows the scale of Richard Nixon's landslide victory. The map of the Electoral College in 1984 shows the ...
Furthermore, a candidate can win the electoral vote without securing the greatest amount of the national popular vote, such as during the 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016 elections. It would even be possible in theory to secure the necessary 270 electoral votes from only the twelve most populous states [a] and ignore the rest of the country.
In our article, we calculated DPV for every presidential election since 1836. 2024 is the 13th closest among these 48 elections. If the 2024 election was a landslide, then so too must be the other 35.
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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.
That’s the largest victory since 2012 when then-incumbent President Barack Obama notched 332 to 206. For context, Trump’s 2016 victory was 304 to 227. Biden won the Electoral College 306 to 232.
Following the 1790 United States census, the most populous state was Virginia, with 39.1% slaves, or 292,315 counted three-fifths, to yield a calculated number of 175,389 for congressional apportionment. [102] [non-primary source needed] "The "free" state of Pennsylvania had 10% more free persons than Virginia but got 20% fewer electoral votes."