American Presidential candidates – Using the Nigerian elections as an example, once you get the most votes nationally, then you are the winner of the election. However, this is the major difference between the US elections and that of Nigeria. As of 2 pm Eastern Time, Clinton had amassed 59,626,052 votes nationally, to Trump’s 59,427,652 — a margin of 198,400, she had more votes than him, but he won the election, because he won more electoral colleges than she did, which is the way elections are counted in the US.
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How many times has this happened before? Let us take a look:
1. Andrew Jackson (1824)
Andrew Jackson lost the election of 1824 because, though he received a majority of the popular and electoral votes, his margin was not great enough for a win, and the constitution directed that the election had to be decided by Congress.
Henry Clay, one of the candidates, gave his support to John Quincy Adams, another candidate, and Adams won the Congressional vote.
Adams had a secret meeting with Clay, obtained Clay’s support and won the election. Afterwards, he appointed Henry Clay as his secretary of state. Andrew Jackson was furious and condemned the election and its results as “the corrupt bargain.”
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