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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 ...
The Electoral College's electors then formally elect the president and vice president. [2] [3] The Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution (1804) provides the procedure by which the president and vice president are elected; electors vote separately for each office. Previously, electors cast two votes for president, and the winner ...
After Lyndon B. Johnson's 61.05% share of the popular vote in 1964, Roosevelt's 60.8% is the second-largest percentage in U.S. history (since 1824, when the vast majority of or all states have had a popular vote), and his 98.49% of the electoral vote is the highest in two-party competition.
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.
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.
President Roosevelt was reelected in one of the largest landslide election victories in American history, winning 61% of the popular vote, receiving 27,747,636 votes to Landon's 16,679,543 votes. President Roosevelt won an even larger Electoral College victory, winning 523 electoral votes to 8 for Landon.
Overall, the chart tracks the number of electoral votes the PredictIt odds are showing. It's shaped like a giant "U," resembling a steep ski slope that bottoms then rises into a giant mountain.