No candidate received votes for President from more than half of the appointed electors.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
No presidential candidate received votes for president from more than half of the appointed electors. The Constitution says every time that happens the House of Representatives has to elect a president from among the three people who got the most votes for president from the electors (12th Amendment).
In 1824 there were four candidates that received electoral votes so that no one candidate got a majority. According to Constitution if no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes, the House of Representative chooses the president from among the top three candidates.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
No candidate won the majority of the electoral votes, so, according to the Constitution, the House of Representatives had to choose the winner.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
because neither republicans or democratics had a clear lead
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
No candidate received votes for President from more than half of the appointed electors.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
There was not a clear winner in the electoral college which, according to the Constitution, put the issue before the House to decide. The South agreed to support Hayes, if Hayes agreed to end Reconstruction. Thus, he won.
House of Representatives
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1800 & 1824
House of Representatives.
The election of John Quincy Adams was in 1924
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None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.
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each state is awarded one vote, regardless of how many representatives the state has.
None of the candidates got enough votes in the Electoral College.