Analysis | Jeffries has now received more lifetime votes for speaker than Boehner

Analysis: The Democratic candidate for House speaker, Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), earned his 1,273rd lifetime vote for the position, surpassing the lifetime total of John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), 1,269 votes. Nancy Pelosi retains the lead since 1913.

reports of the nine ballots it took to choose a speaker in 1923, when Massachusetts Republican Frederick Gillett finally dispatched Tennessee Democrat Finis Garrett.

There are some interesting aspects of the speaker votes that aren’t represented above. One is that both Jeffries and McCarthy received votes for speaker before they were their parties’ formal choices. That’s why Jeffries’s total is an odd number despite his having received 212 votes six times in a row: He also received a vote in 2021.

House Republicans continue to fight over who will be speaker. Kevin McCarthy is failing to muster enough votes, increasing unrest in the house chamber.

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