The Election of 1824 Today, Jackson would be declared the winner. But in 1824, the rules were that a candidate needed not just more electoral votes to win, they needed a majority of electoral votes.

The 1824 election would thus be a strange hybrid: structurally, or organizationally, ... Newspapers wrote lavish profiles; supporters compared him to “the immortal Washington.” ...

On Dec. 1, 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the House of Representatives to break a four-way deadlock between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay.

Andrew Saunders is a producer on CNN’s documentary series Race for the White House, which is narrated by Kevin Spacey. The campaign of 1824 and its aftermath is featured along with the elections ...

In the 1824 election, the House selected John Quincy Adams as president despite his failure to win the most votes overall or earn the most electoral votes (Andrew Jackson had both).

Freewheeling newspapers, ... And the bad blood between Adams and Jackson went back to the election of 1824, when Adams whipped Jackson, who had the most popular votes, ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An election that few residents of a Rhode Island city knew about has decided who controls a fund that traces back to an early 19th-century philanthropist. WPRI-TV reports ...