The highest-ever personal majority for any politician has been 4,726,112 in the case of Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (b. February 1, 1931), the people's deputy candidate for Moscow, in the parliamentary elections held in the Soviet Union on March 26, 1989. Yeltsin (later President of the Russian Federation) received 5,118,745 votes out of the 5,722,937 which were cast in the Moscow constituency, his closest rival obtaining 392,633 votes. Benazir Bhutto (b. June 21, 1953) achieved 98.48% of the poll in the Larkana-III constituency at the 1990 general election in Pakistan, with 94,462 votes. The next highest candidate obtained just 718 votes.

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