In the 1828–29 United States Senate elections, the Jacksonian coalition, despite its leader's victory in the presidential election, lost a seat in the Senate to the opposing Anti-Jacksonian coalition. Senators who called themselves "Anti-Jacksonian" or "National Republicans" were also called "Adams" or "Adams Men." As these elections were prior to ratification of the seventeenth amendment, Senators were chosen by state legislatures.