Single state TITANIUM landslides

[MillennialModerate]

I was looking up some old results of past elections on Wiki and found some incredible numbers:

FDR won 98% of the vote in South Carolina in 1936?!?!

With multiple counties giving him 100% of the vote?.... that can’t be right, can it?

That got me thinking, what are the best performances (in the modern or semi-modern ie 1948-on)  in a single state by a Presidential canidate?

[Mike Thick]

This was back when
 - Republicans were still seen as the invading Yankee army by most of the South
 - The only constituencies that would naturally vote Republican were systemically blocked from voting and registering to vote
 - The secret ballot functionally did not exist, so voting Republican might pique the interest of local government officials or the county sheriff

[DabbingSanta]

Strict voting laws and Jim Crow prevented African Americans and other Republican-leaning groups from voting. South Carolina and Mississippi were the worst offenders, but these practices were widespread throughout the South into the 1960s.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

I was looking up some old results of past elections on Wiki and found some incredible numbers:

FDR won 98% of the vote in South Carolina in 1936?!?!

With multiple counties giving him 100% of the vote?.... that can’t be right, can it?

South Carolina general elections during the Solid South were frequently featuring just one candidate on the ballot. Just look at past gubernatorial and Senate GE (where only a fraction of primary voters bothered to show up, actually)

[DabbingSanta]

To answer your original question:

Best modern performances (1948-present) excluding the District of Columbia...

1948: Mississippi +77 Ind
1952: Vermont +43 Rep
1956: Vermont +44 Rep
1960: Rhode Island +27 Dem
1964: Mississippi +74 Rep
1968: Alabama +47 Ind
1972: Mississippi +59 Rep
1976: Georgia  +34 Dem
1980: Utah +52 Rep
1984: Utah +50 Rep
1988: Utah +34 Rep
1992: Massachusetts +19 Dem
1996: Massachusetts +33 Dem
2000: Utah +40 Rep
2004: Utah +46 Rep
2008: Hawaii +45 Dem
2012: Utah +48 Rep
2016: Wyoming +46 Rep