Why did the presidential election of 1824 need to be decided by the House of Representatives?

Answer 1

Back in the 1800 the electors in the electoral college only got one vote and it was for the president so the person who received the most votes was the President and the person who came in 2nd was the Vice President and there were 4 candidates for Presidency and the two of them tied for first place, and even though they were from the same party Thomas Jefferson who was selected as his party's choice for president tied with Aaron Burr which was the party's choice for Vice President. And in our Constitution if there is a tie or neither member reaches the now designated number to get the Presidency, the House of Representatives (since they represent more of the US's population) votes on which person receives the nod for Presidency. And now today each elector gets two votes one for the Presidential candidate and one for the Vice Presidential candidate.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

It did not -- Washington won in a landslide. You must be thinking of 1824.