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Show OTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS. ELEC-TIONS. Li the pibo.dtMitial cli-eliuri of lt24 the electoral ctill'-gis iempn&ed in till .01 voted, and it required lol to elect. Andrew Jacks' m had 99, John tj. Adams 84, W. H. Crawford 41, and Henry Clay 117. No candidate having the constitutional majority, the election elec-tion of president and vice-president went to the ho'.iao ol representatives, where, voting by states, each state having one vote, John Adams was elected, mainly by ihe intlunce of Henry Clay. In 1828, there being the same number of electors, Andrew Jackson received 178 votes and John Q. Adams In 1S32, by tho admission of nen states, and under a new apportionment apportion-ment of congressional representation, the electoral voto was 286, with four candidates in the field, namely; Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John Floyd and William Wirt. Jackson received 219, Clay 49, Floyd 11 and Wirt 7 votes. It required but 144 to elect, and Jackson bad 152 majority overall opponents. In 1S36 the total electoral vote was 291, and there were five presidential condidatea voted for Martin Vun Buren, W. H. Harrison, Hugh L. White, Daniel Webster and Willie P. Mangum. Vun Buren received 170 votes, Harrison 73, White 26,, Webster 14, and Mangum 11. It required re-quired 147 to elect, and Van Bureu's majority over all was 46. In 1S40 tho electoral vote was 294, with but two candidates, Harrison and Van Buren, Harrison received 234, Van Buren 60 votes; Harrison over Van Buren, 174. In 1844, under the apportionment law ol 1840. tho electoral voto was re duced from 294 to, 275, and the candidates can-didates were James K. Polk am Henry Clay. It required 138 to elect Polk received 170, Clay 105; Polk'i majority, 32. At the next election the total vote was 290, and 116 were required tc elect. The candidates were Genera Zachary Taylor and General Lewis Cass. Taylor recuivi-d 10:1, C.hju 13 volts; Taylor over Cass, 26. In 1852 the electoral vote was increased in-creased to 29G, 149 being necessary tc election. The candidates were Franklin Pierce and General Win field Scott. Pierce roceived 154, Scott 42 votes. In 1S5G the candid a tei were Jamei Buchanan, John C. Fremont and Millard Fillmore. Buchanan had 174, Fremont 114, and Fillmore 8 votes; Buchanan's majority over all, 52. The national republican party came into power at the election of I860. The total electoral vote was 303; necessary to a choice, 152. Abraham Lincoln; JohnC. Breckinridge, Breckin-ridge, John Bell and Stephen A. Douglas wers the candidates. Lincoln had 180, Breckiubridge 72, Bell 39, and Douglas 12 votes. It is worthy of remark in this connection that, while Bell's electoral vote was three and one-quarter times greater than that ot Douglas, and Breckinbridge'a six times as large, the Douglas popular vote was 1,375,157, against 589,581 for Bell and 845,763 for Breckinbridge. From which it appears that the moat popular candidate candi-date does not always stand the best chance of election. Lincoln's majority ma-jority over all was 57 in the electoral vote, though he received 944,149 less votes from the people than the aggregate aggre-gate of the three oppoeiug candidates. The theory of the constitution is that the president must receive a majority of tho electoral vote, each college lepresenting a state, but not necessarily neces-sarily that be must receive a popular majority. Lincoln was re elected in ISflf over McClellan hy 231 to 21 electoral votes. At tuts election, occurring during the ruS; !lion, eleven coulheru slates, be-ii.g be-ii.g i:i arms under the confederate government, did not participate, namely; Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia. Had these states all participated in that election doubtless they would all have cast their vote for McClellan, though that would not havo elected him. As it was, receiving but 21 out of 234 elec tors, bis popular vote was 1,80S,725, against 2,216,067 for Lincoln, whose popular majority was 407,343. Grant received 214 against SO electoral elec-toral votes for Seymour in 1S63; the states ol Florida, Mississippi, Texas and Virginia still unreconstructed and not participating in the election. Grant's electoral majority waa 134, or 67 more than a majority of all the electors. His popular vote was 3,051,071 against 2,709,613 for Seymour; Sey-mour; his popular majority, 217, 1S4. His electoral majority was 45 per cent plus of the whole electoral vote, while his popular majority was only 3 per cent of the whole popular vote polled at tho election. At the election in 1S72 Grant received re-ceived 300 electoral votes, Greeley 66; but Gioeley being dead when tho vutcs were cast by the several elec-I elec-I (oral colleges, these 66 Greeley elec- tors voted as follows, and they were so couir.od and declared by the president ol the senate: Fur Thomas A, Hendricks, Hend-ricks, 42; for B. Grata Brown, IS; scaUering, 6. Grant's popular majority major-ity over Greeley was 762,991, every southern date voting. S. F. Chronicle. |