Presidential election in the United States 1828

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11th presidential election
October 31 - December 2, 1828
			Democratic Party
			Andrew Jackson / John C. Calhoun
			electors					178
			be right				642,553
									56.0%
			National Republican Party
			John Quincy Adams / Richard Rush
			electors					83
			be right				500,897
									43.6%
Election results by state
15 states   Jackson / Calhoun						9 states of   Adams / Rush
President of the United States
Before the election of John Q. Adams Dem.-Rep. Political party						Elected Andrew Jackson Democratic Party

The presidential election in the United States in 1828 was determined by the renewed clash of incumbent President John Quincy Adams and his main rival Andrew Jackson, who was now a candidate under the banner of the new Democratic Party.

Unlike the 1824 election, there were no other influential candidates, so Jackson had a solid power base and won the election against Adams.

background

Andrew Jackson had won the elections in both the general census and the electoral body in 1824, but was still beaten by John Quincy Adams, as the election could only be decided in the House of Representatives. Henry Clay, the then Speaker of the House, appeared there as kingmaker, clearly supporting Adams; when Adams, in return, brought Clay into his cabinet as Secretary of State, Jackson and his supporters accused Clay and Adams of horse-trading and have since severely criticized the Adams presidency as illegal.

Result

The election of Electoral College members began on October 31 with elections in Ohio and Pennsylvania and ended on November 13 with elections in North Carolina . The electoral body itself met on December 3rd.

Adams won exactly the states his father had won in the 1800 election : New England, New Jersey and Delaware. Jackson won all other states. As with his father, the electoral votes were not enough for Adams to win, and he lost the election by a large margin.

candidate	Political party	be right		electors
		number	percent
Andrew Jackson	Democratic Party	642,553	56.0%	178
John Quincy Adams	National Republican Party	500,897	43.6%	83
total		1,143,450	99.6% *	261

* to 100% missing percent: invalid votes / other candidates

The required number of votes in the electoral committee was 131; Andrew Jackson was elected 7th President of the United States.

Movies

• Andrew Jackson vs. John Quincy Adams . USA 2016, 41-minute documentary (CNN) by David Bartlett for the series Race for the White House .

literature

• Lynn Hudson Parsons: The Birth of Modern Politics: Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828. Oxford University Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-1997-5424-3 .
• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 88-96 (= Chapter 13: Andrew Jackson's Initial Election. ).
• Donald B. Cole: Vindicating Andrew Jackson: The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-party System. University Press of Kansas, Lawrence 2009, ISBN 978-0-7006-1661-9 .
• Robert V. Remini: John Quincy Adams. (= The American Presidents Series. Ed. By Arthur M. Schlesinger , Sean Wilentz . The 6th President.) Time Books, New York 2002, ISBN 0-8050-6939-9 , pp. 117–129 (= 10. “Skunks of Party Slander ” ).

Web links

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