Andrew Jackson received the most popular votes and the most electoral votes, but nobody had more than half of all electoral votes as required. When that happens, the House of Representatives elects the President. They chose John Quincy Adams.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
John Quincy Adams eventually won the 1824 election, but Jackson won the popular vote. The election was actually decided in 1825 by the House of Representatives because nobody got a majority of the electoral votes.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
John Quincy Adams eventually won the 1824 election, but Jackson won the popular vote. The election was actually decided in 1825 by the House of Representatives because nobody got a majority of the electoral votes.
In the election of 1824, Andrew Jackson received more popular votes than any other candidate. However, he did not secure a majority in the Electoral College. As a result, the election was decided by the House of Representatives, which ultimately elected John Quincy Adams as the president.
Because he got more votes.
He got 4,850,157 votes which were 55.9 percent of whole votes.
He got 4,206,284 votes which are nearly 48.6 percent of total votes.
John Quincy Adams eventually won the 1824 election, but Jackson won the popular vote. The election was actually decided in 1825 by the House of Representatives because nobody got a majority of the electoral votes.The 1824 election was the first time in US history that no candidate won the majority of the electoral vote. Therefore in Feb of 1825 the legislature voted and John Quincy Adams was elected President.
In the Election of 1824, Andrew Jackson won 99 Electoral votes, higher than any other candidate. He even won the Popular Vote but did not become President that year. In the Election of 1828, he won 178 Electoral Votes; this time, it did put him in office. Jackson would run a third time in the Election of 1832 where he won with 219 Electoral votes and beating Henry Clay, John Floyd, and William Wirt.
According to the US Constitution, if no one gets a majority of the votes in the electoral college for president, the House of Representatives will choose the President. That is what happened in the case of Jackson in 1824. Even though Jackson got more electoral votes than Adams, there were 3rd and 4th candidates that also got votes, so Jackson did not have a majority. Adams had more pull in the House and they chose him.