Senate vote: Cloture motion // February 3, 2017

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Elisabeth DeVos to be Secretary of Education

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Elisabeth DeVos to be Secretary of Education
Creator: Spoken For

52 votes, representing 111,285,160 peopleof U.S. adults

48 votes, representing 140,215,962 peopleof U.S. adults

Share of U.S. adults represented, the Senate. The winning side fell 5.8 points short of a majority of the country.
Side	Outcome	Votes	Share of U.S. adults
Yea	Won	52	44.2%
Nay	Lost	48	55.8%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	0.0%

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