<P> The United States presidential election of 1828 was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held from Friday, October 31, to Tuesday, December 2, 1828 . It featured a re-match of the 1824 election, as incumbent President John Quincy Adams of the National Republican Party faced Andrew Jackson of the nascent Democratic Party . Unlike in 1824, Jackson defeated Adams, marking the start of Democratic dominance in federal politics . Adams was the second president to lose re-election, following his father, John Adams . </P> <P> Jackson had won a plurality of the electoral and popular vote in the 1824 election, but had lost the contingent election that was held in the House of Representatives . In the aftermath of the election, Jackson's supporters accused Adams and Henry Clay of having reached a "corrupt bargain" in which Clay helped Adams win the contingent election in return for the position of Secretary of State . After the 1824 election, Jackson's supporters immediately began plans for a re-match in 1828 . </P> <P> As the once - dominant Democratic - Republican Party collapsed, Jackson and allies such as Martin Van Buren and Vice President John C. Calhoun laid the foundations of the Democratic Party . Opponents of Adams coalesced around Jackson, and, unlike the 1824 election, the 1828 election became a two - way contest . Adams's supporters rallied around the president, calling themselves National Republicans in contrast to Jackson's Democrats . Jackson's cause was aided by the passage of the Tariff of 1828, referred to by its opponents as the Tariff of Abominations, which raised tariffs on imported materials and goods from abroad . With the ongoing expansion of the right to vote to most white men, the election marked a dramatic expansion of the electorate, with 9.5% of Americans casting a vote for President, compared with 3.4% in 1824 . </P> <P> Passage of the unpopular tariff helped Jackson carry much of the South, and Jackson also swept the Western states . Adams swept New England but won only three states outside of his home region . Jackson became the first president whose home state was neither Massachusetts nor Virginia . The election ushered Jacksonian Democracy into prominence, thus marking the transition from the First Party System to the Second Party System . Historians debate the significance of the election, with many arguing that it marked the beginning of modern American politics with the decisive establishment of democracy and the permanent establishment of a two - party electoral system . </P>

How was the election of 1828 different from previous elections