Sentence examples for landslide year from inspiring English sources

Mr. McGovern was re-elected to the Senate in 1974, a landslide year for Democrats after Watergate.

In 2010, another Republican landslide year in House elections, the margin among whites without college degrees was 20.6 points, 55.3 to 34.7.

They remain overwhelmingly supportive of President Obama and voted more than 2 to 1 for Democratic candidates, even in a landslide year for Republicans.

Mr. Hartke had a reputation as a lucky candidate, having first been elected in a Democratic landslide year when Republicans were beaten across the country.

And those 23 Democrats and 10 Republicans were all elected in 2006 – a landslide year for Democrats, benefiting from George W Bush's decision to spend the last four years of his tenure as the mayor of Baghdad rather than president of the United States.

Republican Rick White used that vote to narrowly defeat her in the Republican landslide year of 1994.

It led to a landslide election year for the Republican Party (George W. Bush won public office for the first time), and produced a lasting Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

Ms. McMahon — who in 2010, a landslide Republican year, lost by 12 points to Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, for the seat that Senator Christopher J. Dodd was leaving — has already shifted her broadcast strategy and is running advertisements against the likely Democratic nominee this year, Representative Christopher S. Murphy.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would have preferred to have done better but it was "tough" territory for his party as it had never come close to winning Eastleigh before, even in its 1997 landslide election year.

Labour leader Ed Miliband said he would have preferred to have done better but it was "tough" territory for his party because it had never come close to winning Eastleigh before, even in its 1997 landslide election year.

Governors' races are the one bright spot for Democrats right now, simply because the governors up for re-election this year were elected in 2010, a landslide Republican year.