Who Had The Greatest Democratic Landslide Of All Time?

[Sir Mohamed]

Actually a tie, but tilz LBJ. He got most PV votes, 61.1%. A record that will, I think, remain unmatched forever.

LBJ under-performed considering who Goldwater was, how he became President, and the nature of his campaign: I mean he really should have cracked 60% in California for crying out loud. He also should have been able to win Arizona, which still had a decent Democratic Party then.

So I'll go with FDR.

However, Franklin Pierce in 1852 is also worth a mention on that front.

With 50% of the vote? He got 85% of the electoral vote; something that FDR outperformed twice (1932 and 1936) and tied once; in 1940. And 1944 was just slightly less (81%). Pierce 1852 is very simular to Reagan 1980 in terms of PVs and EVs.

[Sir Mohamed]

I think Pierce won the popular vote in 1852 with something like 51.4% of the vote to 44 percent for his opponent, which is considerable but not landslide proportions. I believe that Taft in 1908 (yes, I know he was a Republican) did a bit better percentage wise in spread than Pierce. The electoral vote was considerable, 254 to 42, but it pales in comparison to the Roosevelt and LBJ landslides. Heck, Andrew Jackson did much better in the popular vote than Pierce.

Even Obama did better in the PV than Pierce in 2008 and 2012.