The American Vote
Biggest landslides
The widest electoral-vote margins in U.S. presidential history.

A landslide here is measured as the winner's electoral votes minus those of the next-highest candidate. Only elections someone won with an Electoral College majority are ranked. Not ranked: the elections of 1789–1800, when every elector cast two votes, so the gap between the top two names is not a margin of victory; and the House-decided elections of 1800 and 1824, where no candidate won an Electoral College majority.

  1. 11936Franklin D. Roosevelt 523 of 531 EV515 EV
  2. 21984Ronald Reagan 525 of 538 EV512 EV
  3. 31972Richard Nixon 520 of 538 EV503 EV
  4. 41980Ronald Reagan 489 of 538 EV440 EV
  5. 51964Lyndon B. Johnson 486 of 538 EV434 EV
  6. 61932Franklin D. Roosevelt 472 of 531 EV413 EV
  7. 71956Dwight D. Eisenhower 457 of 531 EV384 EV
  8. 81940Franklin D. Roosevelt 449 of 531 EV367 EV
  9. 91928Herbert Hoover 444 of 531 EV357 EV
  10. 101952Dwight D. Eisenhower 442 of 531 EV353 EV
  11. 111912Woodrow Wilson 435 of 531 EV347 EV
  12. 121944Franklin D. Roosevelt 432 of 531 EV333 EV
  13. 131988George H. W. Bush 426 of 538 EV315 EV
  14. 141920Warren G. Harding 404 of 531 EV277 EV
  15. 151924Calvin Coolidge 382 of 531 EV246 EV
  16. 161872Ulysses S. Grant 286 of 352 EV244 EV
  17. 171820James Monroe 231 of 232 EV230 EV
  18. 181996Bill Clinton 379 of 538 EV220 EV
  19. 191852Franklin Pierce 254 of 296 EV212 EV
  20. 201992Bill Clinton 370 of 538 EV202 EV

Electoral votesNational Archives, Electoral College results: 1820, 1852, 1872, 1912, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1952, 1956, 1964, 1972, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 (public domain, read 2026-10-03). How these figures were compiled