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Who was the involved with first presidential election with some controversy?
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The first contested election was the third one in which John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were candidates with strikingly different views on the direction the federal government should take.
The first time that the details of the election were controversial was the election of 1824 which had four candidates that each received a considerable number of electoral votes so nobody received a majority. Therefore, as ordained by the Constitution the election was thrown into the house. The candidates were Andrew Jackson. John Quincy Adams, William Crawford and Henry Clay. Clay finished fourth and so according to the rules was dropped from consideration. However, he was able to control the votes from the states he had won and got them switched to Adams who then won the election even though he had finished second both in then electoral and popular vote and a major controversy arose.
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