1820 One vote kept President James Monroe from being elected president without dispute by the electoral college. In 1820, President James Monroe ran for a second term. He was so popular that he won all but a single vote in the electoral college. John Quincy Adams cast the one vote against Monroe. Adams stated that the reason he did this was "to make certain that only George Washington would ever have the honor of being elected President by a unanimous vote."

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