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How was a president and vice president chosen during the first few elections?
Whoever got the most votes was president, and 2nd place became vice president.
What strategy did john Adams use to win this important office?
When Congress elected the president and Vice President in the 1700's a vote was taken. The man who got the most votes was president and the second in votes was VP.
Who got more votes for President Obama or McCain?
Barack Obama received more votes for president. Obama received 69,456,897 votes, giving him 365 electoral votes, while John McCain received 59,934,814 votes for president, and 173 of 538 electoral votes.
Who got more votes in the election of 1824?
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.
A states presidential electors are chossen by?
The voters in the state. That's who we are actually voting for when we vote for President, since the Constitution does not allow for direct election of the President. When a candidate wins in a state, the electors who are pledged to that candidate are the ones sent to formally vote on who wins the election. In some states, the person with the most votes gets all the states electoral votes and in others the electoral votes are divided according to how many votes each candidate got. The are even variations on these two methods.This means that it is possible for one candidate to get the most overall votes in the country, but not be elected President because too many of votes he got were in states with too few electoral votes. This has happened twice in American history: 1876 when Hayes got fewer votes than Tilden, but won anyway, and in 2000 when HGore got more votes than Bush.
What are the effects of the Electoral College?
You are voting for a new president and a new one gets elected depending on who got the most votes; the one who got more won.
Why was the offices of president and vice president created?
They are called for in the US Constitution but no means of election is specified. Originally they were individual candidates for president, whoever got the most votes became president and whoever got the second most votes became vice president. This was eventually found to result in presidents and vice presidents that could not work together well. So eventually the parties started picking a president/vice president pair and they were elected together.
Why did the house of reperesentatives decide the winner in the election of 1824?
No candidate received votes for President from more than half of the appointed electors.
How were the elections of president and vice president handled prior to passing the 12 th amendment how did it change as a result of the 12th amendment?
Before the passing of the 12th amendment, the election of the President and Vice President was done by Electoral votes. The person with the most votes won the presidency and the one in second place became the Vice President.
How many votes did Calvin Coolidge get?
He got 15,723,789 popular votes (59%) in 1924 the only time he ran for President. He got 382 electoral votes and carried 35 of the 48 states.
Who has the most votes of becoming president?
none of them
What president had the most overall votes?
Obama
