Elections & terms
contingent election
The House choosing the President when no candidate wins 270 electoral votes, with each state delegation casting a single vote.
In full
Under the Twelfth Amendment, if the Electoral College produces no majority, the House elects the President from the top three electoral-vote recipients, voting by state delegation (one vote per state, 26 needed), while the Senate elects the Vice President from the top two. It has decided a presidency twice: 1800 (pre-amendment) and 1824.
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