List of Landslide Victories - Brazil

Brazil

Considering that Brazil has a two-round system there was never a landslide victory in presidential elections since the redemocratization in the late 1980s. The closest to a landslide victory in presidential elections happened when Fernando Henrique Cardoso was both elected and re-elected in the first round with 53% of the valid votes against about 30% of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Considering the second round, Lula had a landslide victory both in 2002 and 2006, achieving more than 60% of the valid votes against 39% of his contestants.

Prior to the Estado Novo regime, there were some landslide victories, but it should be noted that electoral corruption was widespread and voting was restricted to literate men. Those landslide vistories were:

• 1894 - Prudente de Morais had 88.4% of the votes against 11.3% of Afonso Pena
• 1898 - Campos Sales had 98.5% of the votes against 8.5% of Lauro Sodré
• 1902 - Rodrigues Alves had 93.3% of the votes against 6.7% of Quintino Bocaiuva
• 1906 - Afonso Pena had 98% against 2% of Lauro Sodré
• 1910 - Hermes da Fonseca had 65% against 35% of Ruy Barbosa
• 1914 - Venceslau Brás had 91.7% of votes against 8.3% of Ruy Barbosa and other non-registered candidates
• 1918 - Rodrigues Alves had 99% of the votes against 1% of other 130 non-registered candidates
• 1919 - Epitácio Pessoa had 71.1% of the votes against 28.9% of Ruy Barbosa
• 1926 - Washington Luís had 99% of the votes against 1% of Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil.

Two of the three national referendums were marked with landslide victories. In 1963, Presidentialism was restored with 80% of the votes, while in 2005, almost 64% voted against the prohibition of firearms and ammunition commercialization.