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During the elections Adams beat Thomas Jefferson.
John Adams
John Adams was the runner up in the 1788 United States presidential election.
Thomas Jefferson in 1796 Presidential election
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Adams won.
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were the candidates in the first contested presidential election.
The ONLY two Federalists to win the presidential election were John Adams and of course George Washington.
Charles Pinckney in the 1804 Presidential election when Thomas Jefferson was re elected.
The outcome of the 1796 presidential election was controversial because it resulted in the first contested election in American history. The Federalist candidate John Adams narrowly defeated the Democratic-Republican candidate Thomas Jefferson, but Adams's vice president was Jefferson's political rival, Thomas Pinckney. This created tension and a sense of political instability, as the president and vice president were from opposing parties.
Andrew Jackson won the 1828 presidential election defeating John Quincy Adams. In the 1828 presidential election there was a total of 261 electoral votes thereby requiring a majority of 131 votes to win the presidential election. Andrew Jackson received 178 electoral votes and John Quincy Adams received 83 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Jackson 642,553 and Adams 500,897.
In the presidential election of 1824, no candidate received a majority of the electoral votes. Instead, the election went to the House of Representatives, where John Quincy Adams ultimately won the presidency.
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