What are the biggest landslide elections of all time?

When other people were first able to run - 2014 - Al Assad got 88,7% of votes while others got 7,5%. On the last belarusian election, Lukashenko got 83,47% of all votes. In the last turkmen elections (2012), Berdimuahmedow got 97,14% of all votes. But this are not real elections: they are show elections. read more

Thus, for elections prior to 1804, if two candidates got above 50% of the electors, the margin of victory is the victorious candidate's margin over the other candidate who got above 50% of the electors. Of the four elections prior to the 12th Amendment, two involved two candidates getting above 50% of the electors: 1792 and 1800. read more

The 1928 Presidential Election ushered in a landslide victory for the Republican candidate, Herbert Hoover, who won by the large margin of 17.41% in the elections. At that time, the Republicans were respected for their success in ushering in the economic boom in the country in the 1920’s. read more