1824 Presidential Election

All four candidate groupings belonged to the Democratic-Republican Party. Jackson received 99 electoral votes, Adams 84, Crawford 41 and Clay 37. None reached the 131-vote majority of 261. The House elected John Quincy Adams on February 9, 1825, with 13 state votes to Jackson’s 7 and Crawford’s 4. Clay, excluded from the House choice under the Twelfth Amendment, supported Adams and uses a light orange shade; Crawford remained a separate contender and uses a neutral color. Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, South Carolina and Vermont chose electors through their legislatures without presidential popular ballots. The APP recorded popular-vote series covers 18 states and includes 13,053 votes beyond the four named candidates. These returns are not a complete national popular vote. VAP is unavailable here: the Census resident adult series used for later elections begins in 1828. No population or nonvoting count is inferred from UF’s separately published historical VEP rate.