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(Top)	12,607	12,607
Process and conventions	10,084	10,084
Democratic nomination	5,364	9,738
Candidates	19	3,530
Nominee	1,244	1,244
Declined to run	2,267	2,267
Result	844	844
Republican nomination	7,336	10,881
Candidates	19	1,453
Nominee	692	692
Lost nomination	742	742
Results	2,092	2,092
Election of the speaker	108	82,538
Background	8,524	8,524
Candidates	1,054	1,054
Summary	8,434	8,434
Ballots 1–3 (January 3)	9,171	9,171
Ballots 4–6 (January 4)	14,257	14,257
Ballots 7–11 (January 5)	14,182	14,182
Ballots 12–15 (January 6)	16,310	16,310
All ballots: votes not cast for party nominee	7,917	7,917
All ballots: summary of votes	2,581	2,581
Impact	151	14,691
Historical context	7,803	7,803
Consequences while there was no speaker	3,051	3,051
C-SPAN popularity	3,686	3,686
See also	132	132
Notes	26	26
References	563	563
Total	141,260	141,260

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A fact from January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 21 January 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the January 2023 election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was the longest speaker election since December 1859 – February 1860?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/January. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election.

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On 29 March 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved to January 2023 United States House of Representatives speakership election. The result of the discussion was not moved.

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The result was: promoted by Bruxton (talk) 18:44, 14 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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... that the 2023 election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was the first in 100 years to require multiple ballots?
ALT1 ... that the January 2023 election of the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives was the longest speaker election since December 1859 – February 1860?
- Reviewed: Claiming the seventh DYK credit of nine from the nine-article hook at Template:Did you know nominations/Arellano Chiefs basketball
- Comment: There were a few thousand edits made to this page during the week. Digging deep into the history, this is the pre-expansion version of December 23, with 4498 characters of prose. That would require an article size of 22,490 for a full 5x, and as of this moment, it is 22,978.

5x expanded by Muboshgu (talk), Davide King (talk), Novemberjazz (talk), ElijahPepe (talk), CX Zoom (talk), and Natg 19 (talk). Nominated by Muboshgu (talk) at 16:13, 7 January 2023 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

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Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall:

@Muboshgu: Article seems good. You could probably do some more expansion while also cutting down the lead to four paragraphs per MOS:LEAD. But this can still pass I believe. Onegreatjoke (talk) 22:15, 7 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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