Senate vote: Cloture motion // September 17, 2015Needed 60 votes to end debate

Motion to Invoke Cloture on McConnell Amdt. No. 2640

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on McConnell Amdt. No. 2640
Creator: Spoken For

42 votes, representing 118,486,229 peopleof U.S. adults

56 votes, representing 118,957,096 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 4.0% 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 2.1 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Nay	Won	42	47.9%
Yea	Lost	56	48.1%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	4.0%

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