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 Translation for 'landslide victory' from English to Swedish
NOUN   a landslide victory | landslide victories
pol.
jordskredsseger {u}
landslide victory
jordras {n}landslide
jordskred {n}landslide
seger {u}victory
segertal {n}victory speech
sport
hemmaseger {u}
home victory
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Usage Examples English
  • On 4 December 2005, Nursultan Nazarbayev was re-elected in an apparent landslide victory.
  • On 26 November 1966, Holt fought his first and only general election as prime minister, winning a somewhat unexpected landslide victory.
  • Fianna Fáil won a landslide victory in the 1977 Irish general election, two out of three seats in many cases, relegating the National Coalition parties to fight for the last seat.
  • The Conscription Crisis of 1918 further intensified public support for Sinn Féin before the general elections to the British Parliament on 14 December 1918, which resulted in a landslide victory for Sinn Féin, winning 73 seats out of 105, whose Members of Parliament (MPs) gathered in Dublin on 21 January 1919 to form Dáil Éireann and adopt the Declaration of Independence.
  • However, they captured only about half of the seats in English Canada, while Laurier's Liberals won a landslide victory in Quebec, where Tupper's reputation as an ardent imperialist was a major handicap.

  • At the 1983 election, Hawke led Labor to a landslide victory, achieving a 24-seat swing and ending seven years of Liberal Party rule.
  • The April 1997 elections resulted in a landslide victory for the SDS, winning a majority of 137 seats in parliament, and allowing them to form the next government.
  • These factors, combined with the 1955 Labor Party split, allowed Fraser to win a landslide victory.
  • In July 2011, the King won a landslide victory in a referendum on a reformed constitution he had proposed to placate the Arab Spring protests.
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