A lot of people have been wondering if the
Electoral College has altered an election outcome
before.
The answer is yes.
In fact, this has happened no
fewer than four or perhaps five times in American history:
The elections of 1876, 1888, 2000 and 2016 all ended with the popular
vote winner being denied the presidency due to the Electoral College
ALL OF THEM WERE
DEMOCRATS!
In 2020 the Electoral College
took a turn and
elected a democrat, as it should!
However;
the results it today’s Civil War!
The Electoral College Has Altered Elections Before
Tuesday,
November 7, 1876,
in which
Republican nominee Rutherford B. Hayes faced Democrat Samuel J. Tilden Democrat lost!
Tuesday,
November 6, 1888.
Republican nominee Benjamin Harrison, a former
Senator from Indiana, defeated incumbent Democratic President Grover Cleveland
of New York – Democrat lost!
Tuesday,
November 7, 2000.
Republican candidate George W. Bush, the governor of
Texas and eldest son of the 41st president, George H. W. Bush, won the disputed
election, defeating Democratic nominee Al Gore. Democrat lost!
Tuesday,
November 8, 2016.
The Republican businessman Donald Trump and Indiana
governor Mike Pence defeated the Democratic ticket of former secretary of state
Hillary Clinton and U.S. senator from Virginia Tim Kaine. Democrat lost!
The
1824 United States presidential election
was the tenth quadrennial presidential election.
It was held
from Tuesday, October 26 to Wednesday, December 1, 1824.
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay and
William Crawford were the primary contenders for the presidency.
The result of the election was inconclusive, as no
candidate won a majority of the electoral vote. In the election for vice
president, John C. Calhoun was elected with a comfortable majority of the vote.
Because none of the candidates for president garnered an electoral vote majority,
the U.S. House of Representatives, under the provisions of the Twelfth
Amendment, held a contingent election. On
February 9, 1825, John Quincy Adams was elected as president.
Democrat
lost!
The Whig Party was a political party active in the
middle of the 19th century in the United States. Alongside the slightly larger
Democratic Party, it was one of the two major parties in the United States
between the late 1830s and the early 1850s
Most of these elections were highly
controversial due to factors other than the popular vote-electoral college
split. The 1824 election is known as the “corrupt bargain,” because one of the
losing candidates, Henry Clay, threw his weight behind the ultimate winner,
John Quincy Adams, in exchange for an appointment in Adams’ administration. In
1876, the popular vote was disputed in no less than three states, while the
2000 election was ultimately decided by a Republican controlled Supreme Court
decision.
