Hoover 1928 vs. FDR 1932 who had the bigger landslide?

[MIKESOWELL]

I have seen a few people refer to 1928 as a bigger landslide than 1932. I honestly don't know what they are referring to. The only advantage that Hoover had was a slightly higher vote share, 58.2% to FDR's 57.4%. Otherwise, Roosevelt had a slightly higher popular vote spread, 17.8% to 17.4%, a higher electoral college vote, won more states, etc. Hoover had coattails, but not like Roosevelt's. The GOP picked up six Senate seats and 32 House seats in 1928, but the Democrats had an avalanche, picking up 12 Senate seats and getting a net gain of 97 House seats to crack 300 for one of the very few times in American history. What say you, Atlas?

[President Johnson]

I think it's entirely a matter of perspective. As you pointed out, you can look at the Electoral College percentage-wise, the popular vote share or the popular vote margin and come to different conclusions. For example, what was a bigger landslide: Nixon 1972 or Reagan 1984? Some elections are hard to classify as landslide either. 1912 was a landslide in the Electoral College, but Wilson just garnered less than 42% of the vote (still 15 points ahead of his next competitor). In 1980, Ronald Reagan won three electoral votes more than Lyndon Johnson in 1964 (489 and 486), but LBJ received a much higher popular vote share and won by a much wider margin. Another question: What was the biggest popular vote landslide? Lyndon Johnson got 61.1% in 1964, but Warren G. Harding (60.3% in 1920) won by a larger margin than Johnson, FDR (60.8%) and Nixon (60.7%) because James Cox only got 34% of the vote, which is less than Goldwater, Landon or McGovern received.

[Calthrina950]

Roosevelt in 1932. Although Hoover did receive a marginally higher nationwide percentage in 1928, Roosevelt's victory had much more extensive coattails and was a major realigning election, signaling an end to the Lincoln-McKinley Era which had lasted for the preceding 72 years. Roosevelt was the first Democrat ever to win Minnesota, the first in 80 years to win Michigan, and won hundreds of counties that had never voted Democratic previously.