Presidential Historian Richard Norton Smith discusses the process and controversy surrounding the 1824 election. Report Video Issue Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

Like 1824, tight election results indicate an apparent separation in America that could take decades to end. Rachel Bucchino is a reporter at the National Interest .

Contentious elections are nothing new. In 1824, drama rippled throughout young America as President John Quincy Adams was confirmed to President by a vote from the U.S. House of Representatives ...

Andrew Jackson had every reason to consider himself the victor of the presidential election of 1824. In a hard-fought campaign, he had won the most popular votes and electoral votes, too.

On this day in 1824, for the first and last time in U.S. history, the presidential election was thrown into the House when none of the four candidates for the White House succeeded in gaining a ...

On Dec. 1, 1824, the presidential election was turned over to the House of Representatives to break a four-way deadlock between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford and Henry Clay.

There are not many examples of so-called “stolen elections” in U.S. history, but the ones that had irregularities and were controversial, in 1824 and 2000, had an oversized impact on the ...

The Madison-Jefferson letters presaged the 1824 election which, thrown to the House, resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams, even though Andrew Jackson had won both the Electoral College.

Here’s a look back at the state’s popular and electoral votes going back to 1824, ... Vote totals in Illinois for the 2024 general election are with 93% of precincts reporting.

Both Jackson and his opponent in the 1824 election, John Quincy Adams, ran more on the strength of their personalities than any party allegiance. Adams, then the Secretary of State, ...