Speaker Pelosi

​California US Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco), as expected, was elected Speaker of the 116th House of Representatives, winning 220 votes for the position.  She escaped going to a second ballot by only two votes.  Fifteen members of her own party, including four who are not serving their first full term, voted for another individual. 
 
Ms. Pelosi, the 52nd Speaker of the House, returns to the position she held from 2007 to 2011.  This is the first time since 1955 that an individual has returned to the Speakership after exiting.  She is the sixth person in US history to regain the Speaker’s gavel after her party lost the majority.