How did key Republicans and Democrats vote on Trump's third impeachment?
Executive summary
The House considered articles of impeachment introduced by Rep. Al Green and ultimately recorded a roll-call that passed with 237 yeas, 140 nays, 47 present and 9 not voting, but the floor drama included procedural moves and intra-party splits that left the outcome politically messy [1] [2]. A bloc of Democrats broke with leadership and dozens of Republicans moved to block or table the effort earlier in the process, underscoring that the third impeachment was as much about congressional calculus and messaging as about achieving conviction [3] [4].
1. How the chamber voted — the arithmetic and immediate meaning
On the recorded final House vote the resolution to impeach registered 237 yea votes, 140 nays, with 47 members voting “present” and nine not voting, giving the measure a majority to pass the House but leaving a sizable minority opposed or uncommitted [1]. The resolution on the record was H.Res.353, the formal vehicle to impeach for “high crimes and misdemeanors,” as entered on Congress.gov; that formality established that the House had approved articles authored by Rep. Al Green [2]. The numerical picture — a majority in favor but dozens voting present or opposed — signaled a partisan plus fractious result rather than unanimous Democratic unity [1].
2. The Democratic split — defections, presents and leadership pressure
Democratic defections and “present” votes were significant: reporting identified 23 House Democrats who voted against advancing the impeachment and another 47 who registered “present,” showing a substantial intraparty reluctance to embrace this impeachment drive fully [3]. The reporter observed that Democratic leadership had pushed back against Green’s effort before the vote, framing impeachment as a “sacred constitutional vehicle” and signaling concern about pursuing a measure that party managers viewed as unlikely to succeed in the Senate or politically counterproductive [3]. Those internal disagreements made clear that a vocal minority of Democrats prioritized strategic or electoral concerns over immediate removal efforts [3].
3. Republican behavior — blocking, tabling and majority resistance
Republicans largely moved to block or table the effort: in an earlier procedural action, 214 House Republicans voted to table the impeachment effort, a bloc intent on preventing it from advancing, and several Republicans did not participate in later roll-call activity [3]. On the final vote the 140 nays reflect a consolidated Republican opposition sufficient to deny unanimity and to shape the political narrative that impeachment was a partisan action, even though some prior impeachments saw GOP defections [3] [5]. Conservative messaging emphasized that Democrats were leveraging impeachment for political ends, and the tabling vote was a tactical move to smother the resolution before it could gain traction [3].
4. The procedural history and prior context that shaped votes
This third impeachment unfolded against a backdrop of earlier Trump impeachments and split GOP behavior: previous House and Senate impeachments in 2019–2021 set precedents where a small number of Republicans crossed party lines (ten House Republicans in 2021 and five GOP senators voting to convict in that round are documented examples), helping to inform both party strategies and expectations about the likelihood of Senate conviction [5] [6] [7]. Advocates for the Green resolution framed it around allegations that Trump’s rhetoric endangered judicial independence and spurred threats to judges and members of Congress, but House managers and members were acutely aware that a two-thirds Senate threshold for conviction would be improbable without major Republican defections [3] [2].
5. What the vote accomplished — politics versus removal, and limits of reporting
Substantively, the House vote formally recorded congressional censure via impeachment articles and intensified political pressure; practically, removal required a Senate conviction that the House majority could not guarantee and which most reporting treated as unlikely given the party-line resistance in the GOP-controlled chamber or Senate math [2] [1]. Available sources document the House arithmetic and the party breakdowns and note leadership resistance within Democrats, but they do not provide an exhaustive list in these snippets of every named lawmaker’s vote beyond the totals and the headline counts of defections and tablings, so a line-by-line identification of every “key” vote beyond those aggregates lies outside the supplied reporting [1] [3].