Biggest Landslides

Sorted by percentage

1: 1920: Warren Harding & Calvin Coolidge (R) vs James M Cox & FDR
      16,144,093 to 9,139,661 (7,004,432 differential)
      60.3% to 34.2% (26.1%)
      404 to 127 electors
      One of our most corrupt presidents and one of the most popular during his time in office.

2: 1924: Calvin Coolidge & Charles Dawes(R) v John W Davis & Charles W Bryan(D) v Robert La Follette (Progressive)
      15,723,789 to 8,386,242 to 4,831,706 (7,337,547 differential)
      54% to 28.8% (25.2%)
      382 to 136 to 13 electors
      Davis, a southern democrat and La Follete, a Wisconsin progressive, split the D vote, making the landslide appear larger than it really was.  Harding and Coolidge presided over the bubble that led to the great depression

3: 1936: FDR & John Nance Garner v Alf Landon and Frank Knox
      27,747,636 to 16,679,543 (11,068,093 differential)
      60.8% to 36.5% (24.3%)
      523 to 8 electors.
      FDR, his policies successful at beating back the depression, carried all but two states: VT and ME

4: 1972: Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew vs George McGovern & Sargent Shriver
     47,168,710 to 29,173,222 (17,995,480 difference)
     60.7% to 37.5% (23.2%)
     520 to 17 electors
     McGovern was forced to change VPs after the convention and Nixon ran a terribly dirty campaign, which included the watergate breakin.

5: 1964: LBJ & Hubert Humphrey vs Barry Goldwater & William Miller
      43,127,041 to 27,175,754 (15,951,287 difference)
      61.1% to 38.5% (22.6%)
      486 to 52 electors
      Goldwater made a lot of noise about using A-bombs against North Vietnam, which scared pretty much everybody.  He won only his home state Arizona and the deep south.

6: 1904: TR & Charles Fairbanks vs Alton Parker & Henry Davis
     7,630,457 to 5,083,880 (2,546,577 difference)
     56.4% to 37.6% (18.8%)
     336 to 140 electors
     Incumbent TR was successful in foreign affairs and trustbusting, and immensely popular.  He'd have easily won a third term but he elevated his protege, Taft, who turned against his successful policies.

7: 1984: Ronald Reagan & GHW Bush vs Walter Mondale & Geraldine Ferraro
      54,455,472 to 37,577,352 (16,878,120 difference)
      58.8% to 40.6% (18.2%)
      525 to 13 electors.
      Reagan touted his "Morning In America" as he presided over the end of the 10 year stagflation caused by the multiple OPEC oil embargoes.  Mondale won only his home state and DC

 8: 1932: FDR & John Nance Garner vs Herbert Hoover & Charles Curtis
       22,821,277 to 15,761,254 (7,060,023 difference)
       57.4% to 39.7% (17.7%)
       472 to 59 electors
      Hoover presided over the start of the Great Depression and exacerbated it immensely with his misguided policies.

9: 1928: Herbert Hoover & Charles Curtis vs Al Smith and Joe Robinson
      21,427,123 to 15,015,464 (6,411,659 difference)
       58.2% to 40.8% (17.4%)
       444 to 87 electors
       Hoover, presiding over the continuing bubble, ran against Smith, the first Catholic to run for president.

10: 1832: Andrew Jackson & Martin van Buren vs Henry Clay & John Sergeant
      701,780 to 484,205 (217,575 difference)
       54.2% to 37.4% (16.8%)
       219 to 49 electors



127M people voted in the 2012 election.   Inexplicably, there are at least 50 million people who will vote for Trump, despite, or perhaps because of his open dishonesty and appalling behavior, or any Republican, no matter how grotesquely unqualified the candidate is.  At this moment, fivethirtyeight.com has Trump at 42.7% and Clinton at 49.2%, a 6.5% difference.  If these numbers hold and there are 130M votes cast, Trump will get 55.5M and Hillary 63.9M votes, an 8.4M vote difference.   It's a good attempt so far, but he's got to alienate a lot more voters to get the Yuugest landslide in history.  He is certainly giving it his best shot.