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----the House of Representatives decides the election by voting on the top three candidates (novanet)----
the House of Representatives
A presidential election is won by the candidate who receives a majority of the electoral votes in the U.S. Electoral College.
A vote in the House of Representatives
Electoral College
If neither candidate gets a majority of the Electoral Votes, the election for President is decided in the House of Representatives, with each state delegation having one vote. Senators would elect the Vice-President.
If no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution provides that the U.S. House of Representatives will select the president, with each of the fifty state delegations casting one vote, and the U.S. Senate will select the vice-president.
There were four candidates for president in 1824: John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, William H. Crawford, and Andrew Jackson. Since none of the four candidates received a majority of electoral votes, the election was decided by the U.S. House of Representatives. The House selected John Quincy Adams as president, even though he had finished second to Andrew Jackson in the electoral vote count.
The House of Representatives elected the president. The 12th Amendment to the Constitution (1803) requires the House to "immediately" elect a president in the event no candidate gets an electoral majority. There were 4 candidates in the 1824 election and none received a majority of electoral votes, requiring the House to make the decision as to who would be President of the US.
Thomas Jefferson 1801 (after a tie vote with Aaron Burr JQ Adams 1825 (after none of the four candidates received an Electoral College majority)
If no presidential candidate receives a majority of electoral votes then the U.S. House of Representatives will elect the President from the three candidates with the majority of votes in a special election in which each state gets one vote. This was established by the Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.