Presidents & Elections1972
Nixon won 49 states, then resigned
Richard Nixon won 49 states and 520 electoral votes in the 1972 presidential election.
That election preceded his August 1974 resignation by less than two years. A landslide measures votes cast on one day, not standing two years later.
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