The 1824 election would thus be a strange hybrid ... has the power to elect the President if no candidate wins a majority of the Electoral College votes. When the first results began arriving ...

1824: John Quincy Adams vs ... in both the popular vote (41 percent to 31 percent) and in the electoral college (99 to 84). Yet Adams won. How could Adams lose both the popular vote and electoral ...

1824, 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016), but twice in the last six elections. What were America’s founding fathers thinking when they created the Electoral College to select the president? Should we ...

Hayes against Samuel Tilden in 1876 and John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson in 1824. Trump and Clinton's overall ...