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unusual facts about landslide



Armen Nazaryan

He won a landslide victory in all five fights, defeating reigning Wrestling World Champion Samvel Danielyan, who defeated Nazaryan at the 1995 World Championships final, in the quarterfinals and home country favorite Brandon Paulson in the finals.

Attabad Lake

Attabad has been visited by both current and former Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gillani and Nawaz Sharif, and by the Chief Minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif, Sharif announced Rs100 million of aid for the victims from the Punjab government and Rs0.5 million for the relatives of those who died in the landslide.

Australian Labor Party leadership spill, 2010

Gillard had been the Deputy Leader of the Labor Party since 4 December 2006, and had been appointed Deputy Prime Minister of Australia after Labor's landslide victory in the 2007 federal election.

Betty Boop for President

Betty's campaign promises win the crowd over, and she is voted into the White House by a landslide.

Boyd Brown

On May 12, 2012, Brown was elected to the Democratic National Committee by defeating former South Carolina Comptroller General Jim Lander and a host of others in a landslide on the first round of voting at the South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention.

California Democratic primary, 2000

Vice President Al Gore carried the primary in a landslide over former Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey.

Charles E. Beatley

After retiring from United Airlines, Beatley ran again for mayor at the urging of local Republicans and Democrats, was elected in a landslide, and served until 1985.

Cinq-Mars-la-Pile

Monument in honour of Robert H. Dunlap, General U.S. Marine who was killed in May 1931 while trying to rescue a woman in a landslide in the village.

Compton I. White, Jr.

White was re-elected in the Democratic landslide of 1964, but was defeated for a third term in 1966 by Republican state senator Jim McClure of Payette.

Dents du Midi

L’Éperon (The Spur), for example, no longer has two summits, since a landslide in the Middle Ages significantly changed this peak.

Dudley Smith

He lost that seat to James Plaskitt in the Labour landslide at the 1997 general election.

Edward Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton

He was Member of Parliament for Edmonton from February 1974 to 1983, when he lost the seat to Dr Ian Twinn as part of Labour's landslide election defeat that year.

Elections in Nauru

However, there are frequent changes of government in Nauru which occur without an election; most recently, in December 2007, that of President of Nauru Marcus Stephen came to office following a Parliamentary vote of no confidence which overturned the preceding Administration of Ludwig Scotty, reelected just a few weeks previously with a landslide majority.

Electoral district of Mount Coot-tha

However, the seat fell to the Liberal National Party amidst their landslide victory at the 2012 state election, with Fraser being defeated by Saxon Rice.

Electoral district of Unley

Despite a Labor landslide, David Pisoni narrowly won despite a challenge from Labor's Michael Keenan, Unley's mayor, which could be due to the recent redistribution which saw the electorate take in more of the east in Bragg and less of the west in Ashford.

Fusakichi Omori

Omori continued his observations south into the Eel River Valley, stopped in Ferndale, California and noted a giant landslide south of Centerville at False Cape which covered the former coast road and created a new promontory into the Pacific Ocean as well as damages to local property and buildings.

George Brown, Jr.

In 1980 the Ronald Reagan landslide almost forced him from office and he struggled to hold on with 52.5% against Republican John Paul Stark.

Gérard Collomb

He was overwhelmingly re-elected Mayor of Lyon in March 2008, defeating Dominique Perben of the Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) by the first round in a landslide.

Han Hoogerbrugge

Hoogerbrugge has made a number of promotional videos for music acts, including "Landslide" by Dead Man Ray and,"You've got to...", "Your music is killing me", "Wake up, make up, bring it up, shake up" and "MASHitUP" by The Young Punx.

Irene Ward

A strong advocate for Tyneside industry and social conditions, she lost her seat in the 1945 general election, which Labour won by a landslide.

Joe Fratesi

He was re-elected by a landslide in 1991, although many prominent politicians, such as Bob Rae and Brian Mulroney, refused to meet with Fratesi on unrelated matters due to his stance.

Karanjadi train crash

At 6.10am, the Matsyagandha Express passenger train, transporting commuters between Mangalore and Mumbai, was on a section of the Konkan Railway line between Veer and Karanjadi, when the engine ran headlong into the debris of a landslide caused by heavy monsoon rains, which had collapsed part of a hillside across the track, crushing steel nets put there to prevent such a fall.

Laura McGloughlin

Translations include Lluisa Cunillé's play The Sale (Parthian, 2008), Stone in a Landslide by Maria Barbal (Peirene, 2010), Toni Hill Gumbao's crime novel The Summer of Dead Toys, and The Island of Final Truth by Flavia Company.

Linda Stewart

In a crowded four candidate race that included Matthew Falconer and fellow Commissioners Teresa Jacobs and Bill Segal, Stewart placed third with 19% of the vote, losing to Jacobs and Segal and failing to qualify for the runoff election, which Jacobs would later win in a landslide.

Malcolm Mackerras

Mackerras said that John Kerry would defeat George W. Bush in a "landslide" in the U.S. presidential election the following day, and specifically predicted that Kerry would carry Florida, Ohio, Nevada and Missouri.

Maltese general election, 2013

Following the preliminary result, in which Labour won 39 seats to 26 for the Nationalists, Labour party leader Joseph Muscat said from Naxxar: "I wasn't expecting such a landslide victory for Labour. We must all remain calm, tomorrow is another day."

Manuel de Araújo

Currently, Dr. Araujo is the Mayor of Quelimane Municipality, after winning in a landslide election (63%) on 7 December 2011.

Mark Keam

Despite the landslide victory of Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell in the 2009 Governor's race, James Hyland was not able to take advantage of McDonnell's victory and was defeated by only 350 votes.

Nathan Tinkler

On 31 March 2011 Tinkler assumed ownership of the Newcastle Knights rugby league club by a landslide vote of the eligible club members.

Odlezly Lake

The flooding was not the only reason of the landslide - structure of the hillside resulted in constant slow shift down, sandstone quarries used for centuries had lowered stability of the slope and the recently built railway PlzeňŽatec cut yet another dent to the hill.

Oregon gubernatorial special election, 1948

Incumbent governor John Hubert Hall, who took over after Snell's death until the election, lost the Republican nomination 51.13-48.87%, to state senator Douglas McKay, and the Democrats nominated state senator Lew Wallace, who had previously lost to Earl Snell in the 1942 gubernatorial election in a landslide.

Peter Reith

Following the landslide victory of John Howard at the 1996 election, Reith became Minister for Workplace Relations.

Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario

The Tories played up Cold War tensions to win a landslide majority, though it emerged several years later that the Tory government had set up a secret department of the Ontario Provincial Police to spy on the opposition and the media.

Results breakdown of the United Kingdom general election, 2010

The Conservatives gained more seats than at any other general election since their landslide result in 1931.

Richard Crawshaw

Crawshaw became active in Liverpool politics in the early 1950s and then becoming a councillor in the 1955 landslide election in Liverpool Borough Council in the Dingle ward which is in Liverpool Toxteth and the council ward was very safe for the Labour party in a marginal seat for the Conservative Party from its creation in 1950.

Rosie Ribbons

She won her heat by a landslide with a version of "Everything I Do" by Bryan Adams, receiving over half of the total votes cast for her group.

Roy Elson

Despite Johnson's landslide victory and big gains for Democrats across the country, Goldwater narrowly carried his home state and Elson lost the Senate race to Republican Governor Paul Fannin by a 51.4% - 48.6% margin.

Rupert Hamer

Employing the slogan "Hamer Makes It Happen", he won a landslide against the Labor opposition under Clyde Holding, and an ever bigger victory (also against Holding) in 1976.

Ryan by-election, 2001

Comparisons were drawn with the 1975 by-election in the Tasmanian electorate of Bass: both had resulted from the resignation of a Defence Minister (Former Labor Deputy Prime Minister Lance Barnard in 1975), and Labor's landslide loss in Bass was linked to the defeat of the Whitlam government several months later.

Seismic microzonation

Seismic microzonation is defined as the process of subdividing a potential seismic or earthquake prone area into zones with respect to some geological and geophysical characteristics of the sites such as ground shaking, liquefaction susceptibility, landslide and rock fall hazard, earthquake-related flooding, so that seismic hazards at different locations within the area can correctly be identified.

Texas gubernatorial election, 1998

Bush won in a landslide, carrying 240 out of 254 counties and garnering 27% of the African American vote – which was the highest percentage for any Republican statewide candidate – and 40% of the Latino vote.

Trentino Project

Mosna won a mere 19.3% of the vote and was trounced by Ugo Rossi of the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party, who garnered a landslide 58.1%.

Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol provincial elections, 2013

In Trentino, where the President is elected directly by the people, Ugo Rossi (Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party, supported also by the Democratic Party, the Trentino Tyrolean Autonomist Party and other minor parties) was elected by a landslide (58.1%).

United States Senate election in Tennessee, 1984

Although the Senate election coincided with the landslide re-election of President Reagan, who carried Tennessee by a wide margin, this time his victory did not have any coattails, as it did in the in 1980, and Democrats picked up three Republican seats.

Usoi

Usoi Dam, a natural landslide dam on the Murghab River in Tajikistan

Venetian regional election, 2000

Giancarlo Galan (Forza Italia, House of Freedoms) was re-elected for the third time President of the Region by a landslide over the centre-left candidate Massimo Cacciari (The Democrats).

Victor Quelch

Quelch would run for his final term in office in the 1957 Canadian federal election he won in a landslide and retired from federal politics a year later when the government dissolved in 1958.

Walter Halben Butler

After defeating Sweney in the general election as part of a Democratic landslide, he served in the Fifty-second Congress.


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