Answer by Kelvin Sherlock for Can a "minority" party elect, or at least...
Wikipedia has a list of speaker elections that you might find interesting.Minority "defecting": many times in early congress. One example would be 1809 when Joseph Varnum (Democrat-Republican) was...
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Question:Can a "minority" party elect, or at least choose the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives?It's a simple majority vote of members in attendance. So a minority party could win such a...
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All that matters for electing the speaker is that a majority of votes is won by a candidate. It doesn't matter what party the voters belong to in determining the winner.In order to get elected to the...
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Suppose the U.S. House of Representatives' 435 seats are narrowly divided something like 220-215 between the two major parties. Normally, the majority party chooses the Speaker of the House.But suppose...
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