How did House members vote on the second impeachment of Donald Trump in January 2021 and which districts did dissenting votes come from?
Executive summary
The House of Representatives impeached President Donald J. Trump a second time on January 13, 2021, adopting a single article—incitement of insurrection—by a 232–197 vote; that tally reflected all 222 House Democrats in favor and 10 House Republicans who crossed party lines to join them [1] [2]. Nearly all remaining Republicans opposed the article, producing the 197 “nay” votes and four members not voting, and the full roll call is available from the House Clerk [2] [3].
1. The vote totals and partisan breakdown
The procedural and public record is straightforward: the House approved H. Res. 24—impeaching the president—by 232 yeas and 197 nays on January 13, 2021, with four members not voting, a margin that reflected a near-unanimous Democratic caucus and a thin slice of Republican defections [2] [1]. Contemporary reporting and legislative trackers uniformly recorded the outcome as historic because it made Trump the first U.S. president to be impeached twice; the tally and party split are documented in multiple repositories including Ballotpedia and congressional records [4] [2].
2. Who broke ranks: Republicans who voted to impeach
Ten House Republicans departed from the party majority and voted to impeach, a fact highlighted across media accounts and congressional summaries; outlets singled out high-profile members such as Representative Liz Cheney and others who framed their votes as a response to the January 6 Capitol attack [1] [5]. Coverage of those defections emphasized the political consequences for the dissenters and portrayed the votes as a rare bipartisan rebuke driven by immediate events at the Capitol [6] [7].
3. The geographic question and limits of the available reporting
The user’s question asked not only how members voted but specifically which districts the dissenting votes came from; the compiled sources in this dossier confirm the number and party of dissenters but do not provide a complete, sourced list of district numbers for each Republican who voted to impeach in the excerpts supplied here [1] [6]. The official House roll call posted by the Clerk contains the full member-level record and is the authoritative source for mapping votes to individual districts, but the snippet available in the search results shows only the totals and not the district-by-district mapping [2]. Therefore, this report will not invent district assignments beyond what these sources explicitly state.
4. What the record does say about motivations and aftermath
Reporting at the time focused on motive more than geography: dissenting Republicans invoked the violence of January 6 and the president’s role in it as sufficient cause to support impeachment, while Republican leaders and most GOP members framed the vote as politically dangerous or constitutionally dubious given the proximity to the end of the term [7] [6]. Subsequent coverage tracked the political fallout for the ten Republicans—some faced primary challenges or loss of leadership positions—which underlines why party-line votes are politically consequential as much as they are legally significant [6].
5. How to get a definitive district-by-district mapping
For researchers seeking an indisputable mapping of each House member’s January 13, 2021 vote to their congressional district, the Clerk of the House maintains the full yea/nay roll call with member names that can be cross‑referenced to district information in congressional directories or Ballotpedia; the Clerk’s vote page for that date is the primary starting point [2]. Secondary compilations and contemporaneous press pieces list the ten Republicans by name and summarize outcomes, but the district-level attribution should be confirmed via the Clerk or a comprehensive legislative database to avoid transcription errors [6] [4].