The word 'landslide' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a large or sudden change in an election, where one candidate or party achieves far more than their opponent. For example: "The governor's re-election was secured by a landslide victory."
Prince Ali – who has the support of most European associations – reportedly believes that voters could switch sides and get behind him in a second round, once they see that Blatter is not set to win by a landslide.
Labour is facing a desperate battle to stop a Scottish National party landslide after a poll showed the SNP had a clear but weaker lead across Labour constituencies in Scotland.
Related: Projected SNP landslide could see it form part of next UK government The poll by Lord Ashcroft – which is of a series of parliamentary seats across Britain – indicates that the SNP, led by Nicola Sturgeon, could win 56 of Scotland's 59 parliamentary seats, according to the veteran polling analyst Mike Smithson.
The people spoke and with a decided voice: in England they called for a conservative approach to social policy and economics, while in Scotland, giving the SNP a landslide, the Scots have demanded a radically different and less austere road than the rest of Britain.
Nick Clegg, the former deputy prime minister, led the tributes to Kennedy as one of the most gifted politicians of his generation who died weeks after losing his Highlands seat in the Scottish National party landslide in the general election.
Michael White is assistant editor of the Guardian and covered the Brighton bombing for the paper Margaret Thatcher expected the Conservative party to remove her as leader after the 1983 general election despite having just won a landslide majority, according to John Coles, her private secretary at the time.
It is also possible to win by a landslide in open democracies.
So the Liberal landslide in 1906 was not the radical dawn.
"In that time he learned his brief, gained the experience, handled the media and won the public trust with an overwhelming landslide.
His colleagues in the armed forces' governing council mandated him to run last Monday – and his popularity is so high among certain sections of the population that he is expected to win by a landslide.
In July, Orbán thanked the opposition for his landslide victories – "those who turned against us and provided the chance for good to win.
