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Under the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, no presidential candidate won a majority in the 1824 election, so Congress decided to defer presidential elections to the House of Representatives. Constitution.
The November 1824 election required 131 electoral votes, just over half of the total 261 votes cast, to select a presidential candidate. It had no effect on the outcome of the election, but it was the first time the popular vote had been counted. On December 1, 1824, the results were announced. Tennessee's Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes and he received 153,544 popular votes. John Quincy Adams, son of the second President of the United States John Adams, won 84 electoral votes and he received 108,740 popular votes. Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had a stroke before the election, won 41 electoral votes. Kentucky Rep. Henry Clay won 37 electoral votes.The House of Representatives was then given control of the election as required by the Constitution. According to the 12th Amendment, only the top three candidates will be taken into consideration for the House if an electoral majority cannot be achieved. Henry Clay, a representative who finished fourth in the House election, decided to use his clout to help elect John Quincy Adams. Jackson's supporters ultimately formed the Democratic Party, while Clay and Adams were both a part of the National Republicans, a loose alliance in Congress that was identified as such by 1828.
On February 9, 1825, the House chose Adams as the nation's next president with Clay's support. Jackson and his followers mocked Adams' subsequent selection of Clay to the top cabinet position of secretary of state, claiming that it was the result of a corrupt deal. Adams' presidency was mostly ineffective and received little popular support. The infamous Corrupt Bargain also followed his reign. Andrew Jackson, who garnered more electoral votes than Adams did, defeated Adams in his campaign for reelection in 1828.