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landslide victory

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landslide victory (plural landslide victories)

(politics) an overwhelming victory in an election
Nixon capitalized on this changing tide of voting behaviour, and hence won a landslide victory in the 1972 election.

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We have made major reforms in Greece. When I took over after a landslide victory we had a mandate for change and I knew my major focus would be re-organizing the state. George Papandreou

Andrew Jackson was the first president to claim that the desires of the public overrode Congress's constitutional prerogatives. Virtually every president since Jackson has claimed the mantle, even while lacking two ingredients of an electoral mandate: a landslide victory and a specific agenda. Ron Fournier

A concrete agenda and landslide victory might not even guarantee a president his mandate in a capital as polarized as Washington. Ron Fournier

According to Trump, Biden has won an EC landslide victory of 306 votes. Source: Internet

A famous political cartoon, published the day after Reagan's landslide victory, showed Amy Carter sitting in Jimmy's lap with her shoulders shrugged asking "the economy? the hostage crisis?" Source: Internet

Gov. Doug Burgum was reelected Nov. 3 in a fashion typical in North Dakota – a landslide victory for a Republican incumbent. Source: Internet

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