1820
Alabama in 1820
The 1820 contest saw Alabama line up behind Monroe, delivering 3 electoral votes to the Democratic-Republican ticket. Alabama ended up on the winning side — James Monroe captured the White House that year.
1820 was the first presidential election in which Alabama cast electoral votes. Alabama did not move alone — neighboring Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia broke the same way in 1820. Across the 51 presidential elections Alabama has taken part in, it has most often sided with the Democratic party (30 times). The vote fell within the Era of Good Feelings — One-party rule and the Corrupt Bargain.
In the national count, James Monroe took 231 of the 232 electoral votes, against John Quincy Adams's 1.
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