1824
What happened in Alabama, 1824
In 1824, Alabama awarded its 5 electoral votes to Jackson of the Democratic-Republican party. Nationally the result broke the other way — John Quincy Adams (Democratic-Republican) won the presidency, leaving Alabama among the states he did not carry.
It marked the 2nd consecutive election in which Alabama backed the Democratic-Republican party, a streak reaching back to 1820. Alabama did not move alone — neighboring Mississippi, Tennessee, and Georgia broke the same way in 1824. 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.
With no candidate reaching an Electoral College majority, the 1824 election was decided in the House of Representatives.
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