Hitler, Stalin, any of the less popular ones. They don't need 50%+1 support, they only need a small but powerful fraction of the population willing to back them.
On that note
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/01/25/we-asked-people-which-inauguration-crowd-was-bigger-heres-what-they-said/?utm_term=.74afdce2031e&wpisrc=nl_politics&wpmm=1
15% of Trump supporters (45% of voters)
This works out to roughly 7% of the population - more than enough to sustain a dictatorship.
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