Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) is no longer the House Republican nominee for Speaker.

Jordan lost a secret ballot vote in a Friday afternoon Republican Conference meeting to remain Speaker-designate. Breitbart News is told the vote was 88 votes to keep Jordan and 112 to eject him.

House Republicans will now go home for the weekend without a nominee for Speaker despite repeated calls from Jordan’s holdouts for the House to get back to work. They will reconvene on Monday evening for a candidate forum.

Jordan had previously indicated he was ready to push for votes through the weekend in an effort to secure the gavel.

"Our plan this weekend is to get a speaker elected to the House of Representatives as soon as possible, so we can help the American people," Jordan told reporters.

He called on Congress to "get to work" and cited the crisis in the Middle East as well as the looming government funding deadline on Nov. 17.

It is unclear what the next steps will be for the conference. Some lawmakers had backed the idea of empowering Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry.

Fox asked specifically about the resolution by Rep. David Joyce, R-Ohio, to temporarily empower acting Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry as elected Speaker Pro Tempore for a fixed period

“I think we need to go through at least one more name (of a candidate) before that,” said one senior GOP source to Fox News.