Biggest presidential landslides

The most lopsided U.S. presidential elections, ranked by the winner’s margin in the national popular vote.

#	Election	Result	Popular-vote margin	Electoral
1	1920	Warren G. Harding def. James M. Cox	+26.2 pts	404–127
2	1924	Calvin Coolidge def. John W. Davis	+25.3 pts	382–136
3	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt def. Alf Landon	+24.3 pts	523–8
4	1972	Richard Nixon def. George McGovern	+23.2 pts	520–17
5	1964	Lyndon B. Johnson def. Barry Goldwater	+22.6 pts	486–52
6	1904	Theodore Roosevelt def. Alton B. Parker	+18.8 pts	336–140
7	1984	Ronald Reagan def. Walter Mondale	+18.2 pts	525–13
8	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt def. Herbert Hoover	+17.7 pts	472–59
9	1928	Herbert Hoover def. Al Smith	+17.3 pts	444–87
10	1832	Andrew Jackson def. Henry Clay	+16.8 pts	219–49
11	1956	Dwight D. Eisenhower def. Adlai Stevenson	+15.4 pts	457–73
12	1912	Woodrow Wilson def. Theodore Roosevelt	+14.4 pts	435–88
13	1836	Martin Van Buren def. William Henry Harrison	+14.2 pts	170–73
14	1828	Andrew Jackson def. John Quincy Adams	+12.4 pts	178–83
15	1856	James Buchanan def. John C. Fremont	+12.2 pts	174–114
16	1872	Ulysses S. Grant def. Horace Greeley	+11.8 pts	286–0
17	1952	Dwight D. Eisenhower def. Adlai Stevenson	+10.9 pts	442–89
18	1860	Abraham Lincoln def. Stephen A. Douglas	+10.4 pts	180–12
19	1864	Abraham Lincoln def. George B. McClellan	+10.0 pts	212–21
20	1940	Franklin D. Roosevelt def. Wendell Willkie	+9.9 pts	449–82
21	1980	Ronald Reagan def. Jimmy Carter	+9.7 pts	489–49
22	1908	William Howard Taft def. William Jennings Bryan	+8.6 pts	321–162
23	1996	Bill Clinton def. Bob Dole	+8.5 pts	379–159
24	1824	Andrew Jackson led John Quincy Adams	+7.8 pts	99–84
25	1988	George H. W. Bush def. Michael Dukakis	+7.8 pts	426–111

Ranked by the winner’s lead over the runner-up as a share of the national popular vote (1824–present, the popular-vote era). The electoral-college result is shown alongside for context.