Andrew Jackson received the largest number of popular votes and electoral votes in the election of 1824. Andrew Jackson lost the election of 1824 even though he received the largest number of popular votes and electoral votes.
In the 1824 presidential election an individual needed to receive at least 131 electoral votes out of the 261 total electoral votes. Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams received 84 electoral votes, William Crawford received 41 electoral votes, and Henry Clay received 37 electoral votes. The popular vote totals were Andrew Jackson 151,271, John Quincy Adams 113,122, Henry Clay 47,531, and William Crawford 40,856. Since no candidate received the required majority of 131 electoral votes, the president was elected by the U.S. House of Representatives in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment of the United States Constitution. John Quincy Adams won the election in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Well, he won the popular vote AND the electoral collage which is a big plus as we have learned you only really need one of the two in American elections which upsets some people. When the popular vote and the electoral college differ the winner of the electoral college gets the office.
Some notable 20th century elections that were ultimately decided by the electoral college include the 1960 presidential election between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, where Kennedy won by a small margin in the electoral college despite a close popular vote, and the 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore, which resulted in a controversial Supreme Court ruling and Bush winning the electoral college despite losing the popular vote.
That is true of the vice presidential elections of 1952 and 1956 and of the presidential elections of 1968 and 1972. In the presidential election of 1960 there was some doubt regarding the accuracy of the popular vote in one of the states with enough electoral votes to change the outcome of the election. It was the type of situation for which the demand for a recount would have been appropriate, but Vice Pres. Nixon refused the recount and conceded the election to his friend Jack.
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The election of the president is determined by a popular vote and by the electoral college. The presidential candidate needs a majority of electoral votes to win, and the electoral votes usually coincide with the popular vote (with the exception of the election of George W Bush in 2000)
Truman received 24,179,345 votes and 303 electoral votes while Dewey received 21,991,292 votes and 189 Electoral votes. Strom Thurmond ran and did get 39 votes from the Electoral College. The Progressive and Socialist Parties also had candidates. As US elections go, 1948 was a wild experience. Third Party candidates don't fare well in US elections, in 1924 the Socialists received 13 Electoral votes and George Wallace ran as an American Independent in 1968 and pulled in 46 Votes.
The electoral college has decided the outcome of several presidential elections in US history. Some notable examples include the elections of 1824, 1876, 1888, 2000, and 2016. In these cases, the candidate who won the majority of the electoral college votes became the president, despite not winning the popular vote.
Only three did that- Hayes, Benjamin Harrison and George W. Bush. John Kennedy may have lost the popular vote- the vote was very close and there was strong suspicion of fraud, especially in Chicago, but the official count was in his favor. John Q. Adams won the presidency after losing both the popular vote and the electoral vote.
The electoral college now reflects each state's popular vote.
In 1789 when the constitution was written there was no popular election of the president. It was all done by Congress. The electoral college is a method to control the election and not only have the popularity of a candidate win. We have lost the reasoning behind this in the modern history of elections.
The electoral college elects the president and vice-president of the US. The electors are elected by popular vote and declare in advance how they will vote if they are elected, so the people choose electors who will vote the way they would vote if they were electors.