On December 1, 1824, it was determined that the vote for the presidential election of 1824 did not have a winner! Andrew Jackson of Tennessee had the most popular votes (151,271) and had won the most electoral votes (99), but a candidate needed to win 131 of the 261 available electoral votes in order to be elected president.
Digging Deeper
The main competition for Jackson, a war hero as well as former governor and senator, known as a man of the people (or a backwoods ruffian, depending on point of view) was a Northern elite, John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts, who received only 113,122 popular votes. Several other men also ran in the election, with two of them, Henry Clay and William Crawford snagging 78 of the precious electoral votes.
