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The electoral history of Nancy Pelosi spans more than three decades, from the mid-1980s to the present. A member of the Democratic Party in the United States, Nancy Pelosi was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in a 1987 special election, after the death of Congresswoman Sala Burton that February.
Nancy Patricia Pelosi (/ p ə ˈ l oʊ s i / pə-LOH-see; née D'Alesandro; born March 26, 1940) is an American politician who served as the 52nd speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011 and again from 2019 to 2023.
As a result of the Democratic victory, Nancy Pelosi became the first female and the first Californian House Speaker. [ 3 ] As of 2024, this is the only House election cycle where only one party flipped any seats, the last time Republicans won a House race in Connecticut or more than one House seat in New Mexico, and the last time Democrats won ...
WASHINGTON — Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the first woman to serve as speaker of the House, will seek re-election to her San Francisco-based House seat, she announced on Friday. "Now more than ever our ...
A powerhouse figure in Congress for four decades, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. was reelected to a 20 th term. Pelosi represents the 11 th District, which includes most of San Francisco.
Pelosi served twice as House speaker, first from 2007-2011 as the first woman to hold the job, and reclaimed the gavel in 2019. She stepped down as speaker and Democratic leader in January when ...
The first-ever election for speaker of the House took place on April 1, 1789, at the start of the 1st Congress, following the 1788–89 elections in which candidates who supported the new Constitution won a majority of the seats.
In the 2018 elections, the Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, won control of the House. The Democrats gained a net total of 41 seats from the total number of seats they had won in the 2016 elections. The 41-seat gain was the Democrats' largest gain of House seats since the post-Watergate 1974 elections, when they picked up 49