House vote: Procedural vote // May 8, 2008

Sustaining the Ruling of the Chair

Name: Sustaining the Ruling of the Chair
Creator: Spoken For

232 votes, representing 118,979,115 peopleof U.S. adults

181 votes, representing 99,170,079 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 5.0% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Yea	Won	232	51.8%
Nay	Lost	181	43.2%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	5.0%

Who won, and how much of the country was behind them