House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) won election Wednesday to serve as minority leader in the next Congress following her party’s historic losses in the midterm elections. She defeated her only challenger, conservative Democrat Heath Shuler (N.C.), by a secret vote, with a final tally of 150-43. Elections continued for other lower-level posts for the new minority party.

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