<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>
what two new political parties faced off in the election of 1828
National Republican Party Democratic Party