Contingent election | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-03

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Contingent election


00:01:26 1 Electoral College overview
00:04:40 2 Contingent election procedures
00:04:50 2.1 Presidential election
00:06:19 2.2 Vice-presidential election
00:07:09 3 Past contingent elections
00:07:19 3.1 Presidential election of 1800
00:09:57 3.2 Presidential election of 1824
00:11:43 3.3 Vice presidential election of 1836
00:12:30 4 Proposed alterations



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In the United States, a contingent election is the procedure used in presidential elections in the case where no candidate wins an absolute majority of votes in the Electoral College, the constitutional mechanism for electing the President and the Vice President of the United States. A contingent election for the president is decided by a vote of the United States House of Representatives, and the contingent election for the vice president is decided by a vote of the United States Senate. The contingent election procedure, along with the other parts of the presidential election process, was first established in Article Two, Section 1, Clause 3 of the United States Constitution, and then modified by the 12th Amendment in 1804.
Contingent elections are extremely rare, having occurred only three times in American history, all in the early 19th century.  In 1800, Thomas Jefferson was pitted against his own vice-presidential nominee in a contingent election due to problems with the original electoral procedure.  In 1824, the presence of four candidates split the Electoral College, and Andrew Jackson lost the contingent election to John Quincy Adams despite winning a plurality of both the popular and electoral vote.  In 1836, faithless electors in Virginia refused to vote for Martin Van Buren's vice-presidential nominee Richard Mentor Johnson, denying him a majority of the electoral vote and forcing the Senate to elect him in a contingent election.