
The United States presidential election of 1816 came at the end of the two-term presidency of Democratic-Republican James Madison. With the opposition Federalist party in collapse, James Monroe had an advantage in the nomination against a divided opposition. Monroe won the electoral college by the wide margin of 183 to 34.
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