Senate vote: Cloture motion // February 14, 2013Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Charles Timothy Hagel, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of Defense

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Charles Timothy Hagel, of Nebraska, to be Secretary of Defense
Creator: Spoken For

40 votes, representing 95,817,371 peopleof U.S. adults

58 votes, representing 143,431,521 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 1.1% of U.S. adults whose member did not vote, voted “present,” or whose seat was vacant.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the Senate. The winning side fell 10.4 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	40	39.6%
Yea	Lost	58	59.3%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	1.1%

Senate This side won even though more senators, and more Americans, voted the other way. Ending debate needed 60 votes here, not a majority.

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