Senate vote: Nomination // July 23, 2019

Confirmation: Mark T. Esper, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Defense

Name: Confirmation: Mark T. Esper, of Virginia, to be Secretary of Defense
Creator: Spoken For

90 votes, representing 212,818,955 peopleof U.S. adults

8 votes, representing 37,562,524 peopleof U.S. adults

The dotted gap is 1.7% 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	90	83.6%
Nay	Lost	8	14.7%
Not represented on this question	No position taken	0	1.7%

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