House Republicans scramble to find new speaker nominee after they ditch Jim Jordan
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Jim Jordan had previously insisted on staying in the House speaker race despite failing twice this week in the face of stiff opposition from GOP lawmakers.

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Party Candidate Round 1 (Oct 17) Round 2 (Oct 18) Round 3 (Oct 20)
Democratic Hakeem Jeffries 212 212 210
Republican Jim Jordan 200 199 194
Republican Steve Scalise 7 7 8
Republican Kevin McCarthy 6 5 2
Republican Lee Zeldin[1] 3 3 4
Republican Tom Cole 1
Republican Tom Emmer 1 1 1
Republican Mike Garcia 1 1 1
Republican Thomas Massie 1
Republican John Boehner[2] 1
Republican Byron Donalds 1 2
Republican Kay Granger 1
Republican Candice Miller[3] 1
Republican Bruce Westerman 1
Republican Patrick McHenry 6
Present
Absent 1[4] 2 [5][6]
Votes to Win 217 217 215

To see who the hold-outs are and how they’re voting, refer to the election of the speaker Wikipedia article. If your elected representative does not appear in the list of hold-outs, they voted for their party’s nominee.

  1. Zeldin, whose term as a House member had ended with the close of the 117th and previous Congress, was no longer an incumbent representative. ↩︎

  2. Former Speaker Boehner, whose term as a House member had ended with his resignation during the 114th Congress, was no longer an incumbent representative. ↩︎

  3. Miller, whose term as a House member had ended with the close of the 114th Congress, was no longer an incumbent representative. ↩︎

  4. Bilirakis missed the first vote due to the funeral of his mother-in-law. ↩︎

  5. Gonzalez missed the third ballot due to a death in his family. ↩︎

  6. Van Orden missed the third ballot as he embarked on what he described as a “fact-finding mission” in Israel. ↩︎