It's happened only once under the current rules of the Electoral College: the 1824 presidential election. In that case, as the Constitution requires, Congress carried out a "contingent election ...

In 1824, four presidential candidates split ... leading some to wonder why the nation continues to keep the Electoral College in place. The Electoral College was established in Article II of ...

This has only happened once, in 1824, when four candidates split the electoral college vote, denying any one of them a majority. Given the current dominance of the Republican and Democratic ...

Our presidential election process is broken. In five elections winners received less than 50 percent of the popular vote. In ...

Hayes against Samuel Tilden in 1876 and John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson in 1824. Trump and Clinton's overall Electoral College tallies were slightly reduced in 2016 as a result of a ...

Only once in US history has the president not been chosen by the Electoral College, since the current system came into play. In 1824, a crowded field of candidates vied for the presidency.

The electoral college is made up of 538 electors — one ... House of Representatives decided a presidential election was in 1824, when it picked John Quincy Adams. In California, for example ...

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump remain locked in a dead heat in national and battleground state polls, with all eyes on who will clinch the Electoral College.