<P> Roosevelt won in a landslide , carrying 46 of the 48 states and bringing in many additional Democratic members of Congress . After Lyndon B. Johnson 's 61.1 percent share of the popular vote in 1964 , Roosevelt 's 60.8 percent is the second - largest percentage in U.S. history since the nearly unopposed election of James Monroe in 1820 , and his 98.5 % of the electoral vote is the highest in two - party competition . Roosevelt won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time , so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in 1984 , when seven more electoral votes were available to contest . Garner won the highest percentage of the electoral vote of any vice president . Landon became the second official major - party candidate since the current system was established to win fewer than ten electoral votes by tying William Howard Taft , who won eight votes in his unsuccessful re-election campaign in 1912 . No major - party candidate has won so few electoral votes since this election . The closest anyone has come was Reagan 's 1984 opponent Walter Mondale , who won only thirteen electoral votes . </P>
<P> Roosevelt won in a landslide , carrying 46 of the 48 states and bringing in many additional Democratic members of Congress . After Lyndon B. Johnson 's 61.1 percent share of the popular vote in 1964 , Roosevelt 's 60.8 percent is the second - largest percentage in U.S. history since the nearly unopposed election of James Monroe in 1820 , and his 98.5 % of the electoral vote is the highest in two - party competition . Roosevelt won the largest number of electoral votes ever recorded at that time , so far only surpassed by Ronald Reagan in 1984 , when seven more electoral votes were available to contest . Garner won the highest percentage of the electoral vote of any vice president . Landon became the second official major - party candidate since the current system was established to win fewer than ten electoral votes by tying William Howard Taft , who won eight votes in his unsuccessful re-election campaign in 1912 . No major - party candidate has won so few electoral votes since this election . The closest anyone has come was Reagan 's 1984 opponent Walter Mondale , who won only thirteen electoral votes . </P>
who won the most states in a presidential election
who won the most states in a presidential election
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan