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  • 2023-01-04 (xsd:date)
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  • Has a Century Passed Since It Took More Than One Vote to Elect a Speaker of the House? (en)
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  • On Jan. 3, 2023, U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy began his formal bid to be elected Speaker of the House. Five votes later, at the time of this reporting, his victory had yet to be secured, as reported by The New York Times: As described by the Washington Post, the last time a speaker election took more than one ballot was in 1923, when Speaker Frederick Gillett, R-Mass., was reelected on the ninth ballot. Oxnard Press-Courier Dec. 5, 1923 The longest Speaker election in history ended in 1856 — it took two months and 133 votes to elect a leader that year. In the House's 234-year history, 14 speaker votes have required multiple ballots. With the rise of the two-party system, only two have come after 1856, according to the Washington Post. Because the last multiple ballot election for Speaker occurred 100 years before McCarthy's bid, the claim is True. (en)
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