A term describing a majority that is bigger than 85% or 90%?

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Is there any term in English for describing a majority that is equal to or greater than 90% ?

Let's say out of 100 classmates 97 voted for John to be the class leader. What would be the right term to describe such a great percentage of those who voted for John?

Until today I thought that the correct term was "absolute majority", but having read the Wikipedia article just now, I realized that absolute majority is merely 50% of voters voting "in favor" plus one more "in favor" vote.

Andrew Leach · Accepted Answer

One suitable and often-used phrase is landslide majority.

An overwhelming majority of votes for one party in an election.
  ‘winning the election by a landslide’
  [as modifier] ‘a landslide victory’

Oxford

Of course, overwhelming and its synonyms (as used by Oxford) will also be relevant.

The term super-majority is also heard, but that's different: that is the requirement for a greater majority than merely 50%+1 &mdash; for example, requiring a two-thirds majority or some even larger proportion.

A term describing a majority that is bigger than 85% or 90%?

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