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| Office | Assembly Speaker |
| Honorific | Assembly Speaker - Abbr: Assembly Speaker |
| Type | Leadership Election |
| Filing Deadline | December 01, 1980 - 05:00pm Central |
| Polls Open | December 01, 1980 - 06:00am Central |
| Polls Close | December 01, 1980 - 07:00pm Central |
| Term Start | December 01, 1980 - 12:00pm |
| Term End | December 06, 1982 - 12:00pm |
| Contributor | RBH |
| Last Modified | RBH March 25, 2021 10:37pm |
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| Description |
Berman and Brown tied at 23 in a vote of the 47 member Democratic caucus on December 1st, 1980. One member refused to vote for either one.
Brown was elected by a coalition of 28 Republicans and 23 Democrats after making a deal to work with the Republicans.
Berman was supported by 23 Democrats and 1 Republican (Jean Moorhead was a Republican at the time of the vote but switched to the Democratic Party in February 1981).
3 Republican members abstained from voting.
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51 (68.00%)