The government plans to scrap the Vagrancy Act and bring in laws to focus on crimes like organised begging by gangs.

Cheering supporters formed a guard of honour for their rock star Labor candidate Claire Clutterham after she managed to take the Sturt Liberal stronghold for the first time in 53 years.

Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000 after receiving 48.4%, but he lost the election to George W. Bush when he only gained 266 electoral votes, according to the American Presidency Project.

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Contentious elections are nothing new. In 1824, drama rippled throughout young America as President John Quincy Adams was confirmed to President by a vote from the U.S. House of Representatives ...

With the 1824 election approaching, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams probably thought he was President James Monroe’s likely successor. Both James Madison in 1808, and Monroe in 1816, had ...

The 12th Amendment of 1804 offered some reform. But in 1824, the House chose President John Quincy Adams over President Jackson, who had earned a plurality. Seeing the danger a year before ...

When No Candidate Won the 1824 Presidential Election, the House of Representatives Was Given the Rare Task of Deciding the Victor A “corrupt bargain” that delivered John Quincy Adams the ...

Following his narrow defeat in the controversial 1824 election, Jackson, much like Trump would two centuries later, claimed the election had been stolen.

The Madison-Jefferson letters presaged the 1824 election which, thrown to the House, resulted in the election of John Quincy Adams, even though Andrew Jackson had won both the Electoral College.

Following his narrow defeat in the controversial 1824 election, Jackson, much like Trump would two centuries later, claimed the election had been stolen.