Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) failed to gain the required number of votes Tuesday to become House speaker on the first ballot.

The founding member of the House Freedom Caucus needed 217 votes to clinch the gavel, but had to sweat to get to 200 votes — as 20 members of the Republican conference opted to back other colleagues.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) received all 212 votes from a united Democratic conference.

A Jordan spokesman had announced that another round of balloting was expected Tuesday evening, with two sources telling The Post 6 p.m. was targeted as the time for the House to reconvene.

But after hours of closed-door negotiations that failed to convince holdouts, Jordan emerged from the whip’s office shortly after 5 p.m. to announce that no vote would be held.

“No one in our conference wants to see any type of a coalition government. So we’re going to keep working,” Jordan told reporters, a reference to the possibility of moderate Republicans and Democrats working together to choose a speaker.

“We’re gonna get to the votes,” he added. “We got to have a speaker and it can’t be some deal with the Democrats.”

The House will reconvene at 11 a.m. Wednesday for the second ballot.

Jordan, who also chairs the House Judiciary Committee, has vowed to stand for as many ballots as it takes to win the gavel.

Of the 20 Republican dissenters, seven stood with Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), whose own bid for the speakership flopped after one day of conference meetings and was never put to a floor vote.

Another six supported ousted former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), while a trio of New Yorkers put in the name of former Long Island congressman and 2022 gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin.

“I want a speaker who understands Long Island’s unique needs,” Rep. Anthony D’Esposito told The Post in a statement. “Restoring the SALT deduction, safeguarding 9/11 victim support funding, and investing in critical infrastructure are our priorities. I look forward to discussions with candidates.”

Single votes were cast for Rep. Mike Garcia (R-Calif.), Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), Rules Committee Chairman Tom Cole (R-Okla.) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.)

Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.), who voted for Jordan, was unable to say how many rounds the speaker-designate would be willing to go to win the gavel but added that the vote count “surprised” him.

“Nothing in this building is easy,” he told reporters, while saying he did not expect the number of ballots to reach the 15 McCarthy required in January.

Donalds also predicted that a speaker would be elected by the end of this week.

But there are few signs of any GOP lawmakers reversing their position in the immediate future.

“Support [for Jordan] will keep bleeding,” one House Republican aide prognosticated.

Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) was one of the last Republicans to go on record with support for Jordan ahead of the vote, as was Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), who in a statement denounced the “208 aiders and abettors” in the Democratic caucus “who enabled the 8 extremists to punish bipartisanship” in the House.

“Can any of my 216 colleagues who voted to vacate Speaker McCarthy honestly say that if Hamas had attacked Israel the day before the Motion to Vacate vote, that they still would have voted to remove Speaker McCarthy?” he asked.

Fitzpatrick nevertheless said Republicans “must elect a speaker and reopen the government ASAP,” citing Americans held hostage by Hamas terrorists, the war in Ukraine and a potential invasion of Taiwan by Chinese forces.

Members skeptical of Jordan raised the issue of security funding for Ukraine and Israel amid the ongoing wars as well as the need to pass further government funding by Nov. 17 among their concerns.

Jordan allies worked the phones and social media over the weekend and through Monday in an effort to flip some of the final “no” votes but were ultimately unsuccessful.

House GOP aides who spoke with The Post were uncertain whether the Ohio Republican’s strategy to go to the floor despite not having the votes would force some lawmakers to switch on subsequent ballots.

But another aide predicted that once the roll call vote hit four “nos,” “a lot more” House Republicans would join in the effort to tank Jordan.

That was the case for Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.), who voted late in the roll call for Emmer, and Victoria Spartz (R-Ind.), who flip-flopped on her support of Jordan over the past week only to cast her vote for Massie, a staunch Jordan ally.

Buck has said Jordan’s failure to confirm that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election was a red-line issue for him, though one Republican aide responded by directing The Post to efforts Buck joined in that year to overturn presidential election results in battleground states.

“I think what Jim Jordan needs to do is stop talking about defunding the DOJ,” Buck told CNN after the vote. “We pride ourselves on being a party of the rule of law. You can’t defund the DOJ or a special counsel’s office.”

“I will not vote for Jim Jordan,” he affirmed.

But when asked whether he wanted Emmer to be speaker, Buck joked: “No, I don’t. I don’t like Tom Emmer.”

“The office of Speaker is the hardest job in Washington. I wouldn’t wish that on my good friend,” Buck later posted on X.

Rep. Gus Bilirakis (R-Fla.) was the lone Republican lawmaker missing from the House vote, meaning 220 Republicans and 212 Democrats were present for the initial ballot. Bilirakis is expected to be present and voting Wednesday.

Meanwhile, Speaker pro tempore Patrick McHenry (R-NC) has thrown cold water on the prospect of him being granted increased authority in the interim by a bipartisan coalition, despite a letter from House Democrats floating such a deal on Friday.

The last House speaker elected with votes from the minority party was Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) in 2001, though the lone ballot from former Democratic Rep. James Traficant of Ohio was not needed for Hastert to clinch the 220-206 vote.