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While Andrew Jackson won a plurality of electoral votes and the popular vote in the election of 1824, he lost to John Quincy Adams as the election was deferred to the House of Representatives (by the terms of the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a presidential election in which no candidate wins a majority of the electoral vote is decided by a contingent election in the ...
John C. Calhoun, supported by Adams and Jackson, easily won the vice presidency, not requiring a contingent election in the Senate. Jackson's electoral college plurality was the result of the Three-fifths Compromise. The electoral college results would have been 83 for Adams and 77 for Jackson without the inflated electoral count of ...
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845) ... Jackson won the election by a landslide, receiving 55 percent of the popular vote and 219 electoral votes.
The 1828 election was a rematch between Jackson and John Quincy Adams, who had faced–off against each other four years earlier in the 1824 presidential election. Jackson had won a plurality, but not the required majority, of the electoral vote in the 1824 election, while Adams, Secretary of War William H. Crawford, and Speaker of the House ...
During the four-way 1824 election, Jackson won the popular vote, but none of the candidates received the majority of electoral votes, which forced the U.S. House of Representatives to decide the ...
In 1828, Andrew Jackson, who had lost the 1824 election in a runoff in the United States House of Representatives, despite winning both the popular vote and the electoral vote by significant margins, ran for President of the United States. He had been nominated by the Tennessee state legislature in 1825, and did not face any opposition from ...
The 1828 United States elections elected the members of the 21st United States Congress.It marked the beginning of the Second Party System, and the definitive split of the Democratic-Republican Party into the Democratic Party (organized around Andrew Jackson) and the National Republican Party (organized around John Quincy Adams and opponents of Jackson).
Presidential election; Partisan control: Democratic-Republican hold: Electoral vote: John Quincy Adams (DR) 84 [1] Andrew Jackson (DR) 99: William H. Crawford (DR) 41: Henry Clay (DR) 37: 1824 presidential election results. Blue denotes states won by Jackson, orange denotes those won by Crawford, green denotes those won by Adams, light yellow ...