![Nancy Pelosi holds the speaker''s gavel after being elected speaker as the US House of Representatives [Leah Millis/Reuters]](https://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2019/1/3/02f556c941534ba1aa8ae9e13ae887f4_18.jpg "New Speaker Pelosi sees 'new dawn' as Dems take control of House")
Democrat Nancy Pelosi was elected on Thursday Jan 03,2019 to be
the new speaker of the US House of Representatives as her party took
majority control of the chamber following its election victory in
Nov 2018
This marks Pelosi's second stint as speaker. She
was the first woman ever to hold the job, serving from 2007 until 2011,
when Republicans began an eight-year run in the House majority.
Pelosi received 220 votes for speaker, while
Republican Representative Kevin McCarthy got 192 votes.
A smattering of
others received the remaining votes in the chamber that holds 435 seats.
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