Before the election of 1824, the United States was at the tail end of the so-called Era of Good Feelings, a time when political partisanship was low and one party, the Democratic-Republicans ...

Decision Day has become divisive but in Dr. Sarah Purcell’s history class at Grinnell College students learn it is hardly ...

For just the 11th time in 200 years, a majority of Illinois voters selected in a general election the candidate who would ...

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 popular and ...

What if neither Kamala Harris nor Donald Trump secures the crucial 270 electoral votes needed to win, setting up a rare constitutional tiebreaker?

Twenty consecutive elections with comfortable margins for all but one, followed by seven consecutive close outcomes, could be ...

Biden's win came as voter turnout rose 7% over 2016, resulting in a total of 66% of U.S. adult citizens casting a ballot in ...

A constitutional amendment more than two centuries old determines the choice of winner in case of a draw View on euronews ...

Similar stalemates have occurred twice in US history, in 1800 and 1824. In the 1800 election, Thomas Jefferson’s ...

In the United States, we elect our president and vice president using the Electoral College rather than the national popular vote. To win, a party's ticket must win the most votes in enough states ...