Senate vote: Nomination // May 19, 2009

Confirmation of Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Name: Confirmation of Gary Gensler, of Maryland, to be Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Creator: Spoken For

88 votes, representing 213,023,706 peopleof U.S. adults

6 votes, representing 7,587,164 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 4.9% 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	88	91.8%
Nay	Lost	6	3.3%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	4.9%

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