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Johnson wins speakership on 1st round after last-minute vote changes. Johnson staved off a failure in the first round of voting to win a second term as speaker. ... the 218 needed to be speaker ...
Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson was narrowly reelected as House speaker on Friday, Jan. 3, after his initial vote tally came up short. During the first round of voting, House representatives weren't ...
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The final vote began at 11:50 p.m., [133] and the threshold of 215 members present and voting needed for a majority (excluding those present and not voting) was reached at 12:29 a.m. [134] With a majority of votes cast, McCarthy was elected speaker at 12:37 a.m. after the results were read by the clerk.
In a two-round system, if no candidate receives a majority of the vote in the first round, the two candidates with the most votes in the first round proceed to a second round where all other candidates are excluded. [note 1] Both rounds are held under choose-one voting, where the voter marks a single favored candidate.
An example of a ballot paper. In each round of an exhaustive ballot the voter simply marks an 'x' beside his or her favourite candidate. If no candidate has an absolute majority of votes (i.e., more than half) in the first round, then the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated while all other candidates advance to a second round.
The majority whip told colleagues he wanted to secure the needed 217 GOP votes first before rushing to the floor, lawmakers said, and he stayed for hours after the vote addressing concerns from ...
Among the proposed changes was a requirement that for a representative to be nominated for speaker, they must get 217 votes within the conference — the number of votes needed on the House floor ...