Senate vote: Cloture motion // December 4, 2017

Motion to Invoke Cloture on Kirstjen Nielsen, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Homeland Security

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on Kirstjen Nielsen, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Homeland Security
Creator: Spoken For

59 votes, representing 124,292,805 peopleof U.S. adults

33 votes, representing 114,805,022 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.

Share of U.S. adults represented, the Senate. The winning side fell 0.6 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Yea	Won	59	49.4%
Nay	Lost	33	45.6%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	4.9%

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