1828 United States presidential election

The 1828 United States presidential election was the 11th quadrennial presidential election, held on November 3, 1828. The Democratic Party ticket of US Senator Java and former President and Senator from Texas StarNinga defeated the grassroots One Nation ticket of former president Shellblu vying for a second term in office as well as the two Republican tickets of Beaverman and De_Conqueror. Java's 45.8% of the popular vote was also the smallest percentage of the popular vote for the winning candidate in American History, with this also being the first election with a tie in the Popular Vote.

Java defeated Great Lakes Governor Upset99 and Former Presidential Nominee Alaabrine in the Democratic Primaries. The DNC was held in Los Angeles, where he announced StarNinga as his running mate. In the Republican Primaries, with Incumbent President LandonHM being illegible for a third term, Nebraska Governor De_Conqueror was initially declared the winner against his opponents Supreme Justice NFISH and Nebraska Senator Beaverman. However, in what ended being called a "Corrupt Bargain", NFISH negociated a deal with RNC Chairman Alex Jones to give 3/4 of his delegates to Beaverman, which ended up giving him the Nomination. Enraged by this, De_Conqueror and his supporters split off from the Patriot Republican Party to form the Republican Party. This party ended up being commonly referred to as the "National Republican" party to avoid confusion. De_Conqueror was nominated by the National Republicans

Prior to both the Democratic and Republican Primaries, former President Shellblu announced that he will be running for re-election for a second non-consecutive term as President, reclaiming the nomination of the One Nation Party, which hadn't nominated presidential candidates since 1796. This began a grassroots effort in states like California and Florida which made him become the frontrunner in many presidential polls, and with him in 2nd place in many others. He announced that NFISH would be his running mate soon before the Election.

On Election Day it was a very close race, with De_Conqueror dropping out and endorsing Beaverman very early on. Despite this, he still ended up earning 3.6% of the Popular Vote. Beaverman and the Republicans earned a very poor showing of 4.8%, which to this day is the worst showing for the Republican Party ever. On Election Day Shellblu was projected to win 140 Electoral Votes, and Java was projected to win 195 Electoral Votes, with De_Conqueror winning the District of Columbia. However, as the date that the electoral college drew near, Shellblu suddenly died. All of his electors were suddenly invalid, because he would not legally be able to serve as president. California, a state that was won by shellblu, cast all of it's faithless electors to Java, with Florida going to Governor ZGamerz_123, Nebraska going to Senator Beaverman, and Pennsylvania going to Justice NFISH.

This is the only election so far in American History where there have been faithless electors. Washington Senator SayerQT presided over the Electoral Certification in lieu of Vice President Ruben who delegated the duties to the Senator.

Java and StarNinga were sworn in on April 3, 1829 as President and Vice President of the United States.