The first U.S. presidential election occurred 235 years ago, in 1789. It was a small election (about 28,000 voters) without attack ads, noisy political conventions, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — This presidential election, the first since the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol, will be a stress test of the new systems and guardrails that Congress put in place to ...

The First Presidential Election. Share full article. March 20, 1868. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from March 20, 1868, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

America’s First ‘Rigged’ Presidential Election. Andrew Jackson’s outrage over his 1824 defeat by John Quincy Adams shows the havoc that claims of a fixed election can wreak on the winner. By .