Election 1824: When the Loser Won
John Quincy Adams lost the election--
and became president anyway
In U.S. presidential elections, the candidate who gets the most votes wins, right? Not quite. OK, but the candidate who gets the most Electoral College votes wins, right? Not always. Not in the election of 1824, when John Quincy Adams proved you can lose it all and still win.
By 1824, the United States was basically operating under a one-party system when it came to presidential politics. The once-powerful Federalists, led at their height by men like John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, had all but disappeared from the national scene, leaving Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans as the only party with any presidential pull.
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