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1820 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Results

1820 US Presidential Election Result, Past US election Result, US Presidential Election History Details winner candidates party vote %, US Election Resultsus-map

The United States presidential election of 1820 was the ninth quadrennial presidential election. It was held from Wednesday, November 1, to Wednesday, December 6, 1820. It was the third and last United States presidential election in which a candidate ran effectively unopposed (the previous two unopposed presidential elections were those of 1788–89 and 1792, in which George Washington ran without serious opposition). President James Monroe and Vice President Daniel D. Tompkins were re-elected effortlessly and captured all but one electoral vote.

Presidential candidate

Party

Home state

Popular vote(a)

Electoral vote

Count

Percentage

James Monroe (Incumbent)

Democratic-Republican

Virginia

87,343

80.61%

228/231(c)

No candidate

Federalist

N/A

17,465

16.12%

0

DeWitt Clinton

Independent

New York

1,893

1.75%

0

John Quincy Adams

Democratic-Republican

Massachusetts

(b)

(b)

1

Total

1,08,359

100.00%

229/232(c)

Needed to win

115/117(c)