During this election, the
Democratic-Republican Party was the only major national party, and four different candidates from this party sought the Presidency. Although
Illinois voted for
John Quincy Adams over
Andrew Jackson,
Henry Clay, and
William H. Crawford, the district-based system used for choosing electors meant that only one of the state's electoral votes were assigned to Adams, while the remaining two were assigned to Jackson. Adams won Illinois by a margin of 5.23%.
Results
1824 United States presidential election in Illinois[1]