Story highlights Paul Ryan needs 218 votes Tuesday to remain House speaker 
 
 Nancy Pelosi is expected to be re-elected House minority leader 
 
 Washington (CNN) Paul Ryan was easily re-elected Speaker of the House of the 115th Congress, following a vote in the chamber Tuesday. 
 
 Only one Republican member defected -- Kentucky Republican Rep. Tom Massie, who is a frequent critic of the speaker, voted for Rep. Daniel Webster. 
 
 On the Democratic side, Nancy Pelosi was re-elected Minority Leader with only four of her colleagues voting for someone else for the top the Democratic post, following a year that saw both parties questioning their congressional leadership. 
 
 Ryan was re-elected by the House Republican conference in November to serve a second term as speaker of the House. And after a tumultuous first year in the top leadership spot -- a job he was elected to after then-Speaker John Boehner abruptly resigned -- Ryan clashed with both conservatives on the right of the conference and with then-Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. 
 
 But a lot has changed since then. Trump's 2016 election win helped unite the Republican Party while Democrats are still trying to figure what went wrong. 
 
 Read More ||||| Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) won re-election as House speaker Tuesday in a 239-189 vote that showed House Republicans to be unified as their party takes the reins of power in Washington. Photo: AP 
 
 WASHINGTON—Rep. Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) won re-election as House speaker Tuesday in a 239-189 vote that showed House Republicans to be unified as their party takes the reins of power in Washington. 
 
 Mr. Ryan won the support of all but one House Republican, a strong showing amid a discordant fight earlier in the day among GOP lawmakers over the process for investigating alleged ethical breaches. Nine Republicans had voted against Mr. Ryan in protest in October 2015 when he succeeded Rep. John Boehner as speaker. 
 
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– Paul Ryan was re-elected Speaker of the House by the 115th Congress on Tuesday, CNN reports. According to the Wall Street Journal, he won the vote 239-189. His re-election to the position is further evidence that Donald Trump's election has soothed relations among Republican lawmakers. "For all of our arguments and all of our differences, we are all united by a deep, abiding love of our country," CNN quotes Ryan as saying. Only one Republican didn't vote for Ryan; that number was nine when he was first elected speaker in 2015. Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi was re-elected minority leader with four Democrats voting for someone else.