Senate vote: Cloture motion // March 1, 2017

Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Ben Carson to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development

Name: Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of Ben Carson to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Creator: Spoken For

62 votes, representing 126,338,213 peopleof U.S. adults

37 votes, representing 121,205,602 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 1.6% 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	62	50.2%
Nay	Lost	37	48.2%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	1.6%

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