For the first time in 100 years, the US House of Representatives failed to select a speaker in the first round.

Republican nominee Kevin McCarthy failed to get enough votes in the first round to get elected.

Republican Andrew Biggs and Democrat Hakim Jeffreys were also up for the vote.

It is noted that now the second round of voting is ahead.

In November, Nancy Pelosi announced that she would not be the leader of the Democrats in the new House of Representatives.