Nobody received more than half of the electoral votes.
Nobody received more than half of the electoral votes.
Nobody received more than half of the electoral votes.
The US House of Representatives settled the 1824 election and chose the president in early 1825.
No. Jackson was never Speaker of the House- he served only was one year and not influential as a Congressman. He did run for president in 1824 and was close to being elected.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
the house of representatives
The House of Representatives elected the president. The 12th Amendment to the Constitution (1803) requires the House to "immediately" elect a president in the event no candidate gets an electoral majority. There were 4 candidates in the 1824 election and none received a majority of electoral votes, requiring the House to make the decision as to who would be President of the US.
developed more democratic ways to choose candidates for president.
Yes, because the voters don't choose the President and Vice President; they choose the electors who choose the President and Vice President. A person can be elected President without a majority of electoral votes, too. It happened in 1824. If no candidate has an absolute majority (more than half) of all of the electoral votes, the House of Representatives elects the President, and they are not required to vote according to the will of the voters or the electoral college. Since 1964, that required minimum number of votes is 270.
If no candidate for the presidency wins a simple majority (51%) of the total number of electoral votes, then the House of Representatives have the power to choose the President of the US. Each state gets one vote. The margin required to choose the president in the House is a majority of those voting. The only time this happened, in 1824, the representatives of some of the states could not agree on how to vote and so those states did not vote.
James Buchanan ran as a...Federalist for U.S. Representative in 1820.Jacksonian Federalist for U.S. Representative in 1822.Jacksonian for U.S. Representative in 1824, 1826 & 1828.Democrat for U.S. Senator in 1834, 1836 & 1843.Democrat for U.S. President in 1856.
the president is not elected by the house of representatives. He is elected by the continental congress.