Talk:1923 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election

Contradiction regarding Henry A. Cooper nomination
In the infobox, under Henry A. Cooper, for First ballot, there is an explanatory footnote that says "this candidate received one or more votes on this ballot despite not being formally nominated." This footnote was present when you created the article. In the text of the article, it says that Henry A. Cooper was nominated by Edward E. Browne. This was also present when you created the article. This seems to be a contradiction to me. Either the footnote is wrong, or the text is wrong. My assumption is that this is an artifact of when the article was only a draft, and that the footnote is wrong. But you seem to be the expert here, so I thought I should let you know about this, rather than being bold and acting on my assumption. NHammen (talk) 14:53, 18 October 2023 (UTC)


 * @NHammen: I appreciate the flag. I'll take a look at the source to confirm and fix. (This article was almost entirely sourced from the Congressional Record. Unlike the 185556 article I'm drafting, there's little academic or modern press coverage of this election.) -A-M-B-1996- (talk) 14:57, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
 * @NHammen Confirmed this was an error; thanks again! -A-M-B-1996- (talk) 15:00, 18 October 2023 (UTC)

multiple ballot speaker votes
the intro paragraph notes that this was the second time in US history in which neither major candidate received a majority of total votes, requiring multiple ballots, which didn’t happen again until Jan 2023. It mentions January as the last time this occurred, but Jim Jordan failed multiple ballots days ago. Considering Jordan later pulled out of the race and was not ultimately elected speaker, does January still count as the last time? should Jordan’s losing ballots be counted if he never actually became speaker? Kabaivanoff (talk) 20:58, 25 October 2023 (UTC)

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