2019 Speaker Of The British House Of Commons Election
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The election for the 158th Speaker of the House of Commons took place on 4 November 2019.
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was elected with 325 votes in the final ballot, out of a total of 540 votes cast. The election was triggered on 9 September 2019, when former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, announced his resignation as both Speaker and Member of Parliament, effective at the end of the 31 October 2019 sitting, unless Parliament was dissolved for an early general election before that date, in which case the election of Speaker would take place at the first sitting of the new Parliament. On 29 October the House of Commons voted for an early general election to be held on 12 December 2019 with Parliament due to be dissolved on 6 November, two days after the election of a new Speaker.


John Bercow

John Bercow, the Member of Parliament for the constituency of
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, was elected to the post of Speaker in 2009. The 2009 election was triggered by the resignation of Michael Martin at the height of the parliamentary expenses scandal. Martin was perceived as being part of a cover-up of inappropriate Parliamentary expenses and faced an unprecedented
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in his speakership after he made comments from the chair that attacked a ''Daily Telegraph'' leak of parliamentarians' expenses claims. Bercow beat nine other candidates to become Speaker; he defeated fellow
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MP George Young in the third and final round by a margin of 322–271. As Speaker, Bercow garnered a reputation of being a moderniser of the office—he notably eschewed the use of embroidered
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in favour of business suits—and having a friendly relationship with
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s, allowing more urgent questions and backbench business than his predecessors. His backbencher-friendly reputation often put him at odds with the Government: in March 2015, a Government attempt to bring in an election by secret ballot after the general election two months later was defeated by opposition and backbench MPs who saw the effort as an attempt by the Government to depose a Speaker they disliked. Bercow was elected without contest after the
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general elections. In October 2018, it was reported that Bercow had informed friends of his intention to step down as Speaker in mid-2019, after ten years in the role. At the time, Bercow was facing several allegations of bullying his parliamentary staff. In May 2019, he delayed his impending resignation; he stated that he did not feel it was “sensible to vacate the chair” whilst events such as
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were debated heavily in Parliament. Bercow's relationship with the Government had deteriorated over 2019; in March, he allowed backbenchers to attempt to take control of the Order Paper and pass the
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, which forced Brexit to be delayed from March to October 2019. After backbenchers took control of the Order Paper again to pass the European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 2) Act 2019, former
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, Andrea Leadsom, wrote an opinion column in the 8 September edition of the ''
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'' which accused the Speaker of "flagrant abuse" of parliamentary process and welcomed the Buckingham
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's intent to break with tradition and stand a candidate against him at the next general election. On 9 September 2019, hours before the prorogation of Parliament, Bercow made a statement from the chair announcing his impending resignation: if Parliament voted for a general election that night, he would stand down at the election; if Parliament rejected an early election, he would stand down at the close of business on 31 October. Bercow said his choice of date — also the day when the United Kingdom was due to leave the European Union — was to ensure minimal disruption to the debates on the
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in mid-October. His resignation came at a time of major legislative conflict between Parliament and the Government; a speakership election before a general election made it more difficult for the Government—which did not have a working majority in Parliament—to install a friendlier Speaker. Bercow resigned as an MP on 4 November.


Procedure

The rules for the election of the Speaker were introduced in 2001, after what was perceived as a farcical, time-consuming procedure of individual substantive motions in the 2000 election. They are set out in Section 1 of the Standing Orders of the House of Commons. All candidates for Speaker were required to be a sitting Member of Parliament and be nominated by at least twelve and at most fifteen Members of Parliament, at least three of whom must be from a political party different from that of the candidate. Each MP could only nominate one candidate. On the morning of the election, the nominations were transmitted to the Clerk of the House alongside the candidate's statement of consent to nomination. The House then met at and was presided over by Father of the House
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(
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), during the election. If there had been only one candidate, a motion would have been laid before the House to ask if the candidate should take the Chair as Speaker. If the question was challenged, the decision would have been put to a division. There were seven candidates for election and each candidate gave a five-minute speech to the House before the start of voting. The House then voted by secret ballot, using the exhaustive ballot voting system. Each MP cast one vote and an
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was required. If no candidate won a majority, the individual with the fewest votes was eliminated, as were any candidates who received less than 5% of the votes cast. The House then continued to vote until one member received a majority of the vote. After four rounds of voting, Sir
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received an absolute majority. At that point, the Father of the House
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put the question "That Sir
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do take the Chair of this House as Speaker"; which was passed without audible opposition. Hoyle was then, by tradition, dragged to the Chair by his fellow MPs. Hoyle formally became Speaker upon receiving the Queen's approbation shortly after his election. The approval was given on behalf of
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by a
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consisting of Robert James Buckland, Lord Chancellor of Great Britain; Baroness Evans of Bowes Park, Leader of the House of Lords; Lord Dholakia, Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats in the House of Lords; Lord Judge, Convenor of the Crossbench Peers; and Baroness Smith of Basildon, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords.


Candidates

Following reports that John Bercow planned to step down in 2019, a number of potential candidates attracted speculation in the media. Candidates and their intentions are given below:


Announced

*
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( Labour,
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) *
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( Labour, Camberwell and Peckham) * Meg Hillier ( Labour, Hackney South and Shoreditch) *
Lindsay Hoyle Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (born 10 June 1957) is a British politician who has served as Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons since 2019 and as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliamen ...
( Labour,
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; Deputy Speaker and Chairman of Ways and Means) *
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(
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,
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; Deputy Speaker) *
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, Gainsborough) *
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( Labour, Doncaster Central; Deputy Speaker)


Declined

* Pete Wishart ( SNP, Perth and North Perthshire); previously expressed an interest in running, but decided against a candidacy after Bercow's resignation in order to spend more time campaigning for
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.


Withdrew prior to nomination

* Sir Henry Bellingham (
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, North West Norfolk) * Shailesh Vara (
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, North West Cambridgeshire); endorsed Hoyle.


Nominations

The official list of candidates, along with the MPs who nominated them, was released on the morning of 4 November. Nominations were as follows: *
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, Chris Heaton-Harris, Philippa Whitford,
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, Holly Lynch, Lyn Brown,
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, Ian Murray,
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Andrew Mitchell,
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, Joanna Cherry,
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, Seema Malhotra, Emily Thornberry,
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, David Lammy,
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, Sarah Wollaston. * Meg Hillier
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, Sarah Champion,
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, Mark Prisk, Lee Rowley, Douglas Chapman, Anne Marie Morris,
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, Ian Mearns, Lisa Cameron, Gareth Thomas, Deidre Brock. *
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Sir Charles Walker, Marion Fellows, Tracey Crouch, Marsha de Cordova, David Crausby, Joan Ryan, Seema Kennedy, Pauline Latham,
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, Sir Roger Gale, William Wragg, Christian Matheson, Khalid Mahmood, Caroline Flint, Jamie Stone. *
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, David Linden, Chris Grayling, Tim Loughton, Jack Brereton, Liam Fox, Mark Harper,
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Richard Bacon, Julian Lewis, Nigel Mills,
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, Sir John Hayes,
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, Martin Docherty-Hughes, Alberto Costa, Stephen Pound, Sir David Amess, Robert Goodwill, Fiona Bruce, David Morris,
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, Geraint Davies. *
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, Jonathan Ashworth, Peter Kyle, Sir Patrick McLoughlin, Alistair Carmichael, Eleanor Smith,
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, Liz McInnes,
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, Dame Eleanor Laing,
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, John Grogan,
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, Ian Lucas,
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. Notably,
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and
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nominated each other.


Opinion polling


Results

The results of the first secret ballot were announced at 16:15 GMT on 4 November 2019. The results of the second ballot were announced at 17:45, with the results of the third ballot coming at 19:15.
Lindsay Hoyle Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (born 10 June 1957) is a British politician who has served as Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons since 2019 and as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliamen ...
was announced as the winner at 20:20. Following the final vote, the question was put "That Sir
Lindsay Hoyle Sir Lindsay Harvey Hoyle (born 10 June 1957) is a British politician who has served as Speaker of the House of Commons (United Kingdom), Speaker of the House of Commons since 2019 and as Member of Parliament (United Kingdom), Member of Parliamen ...
do take the Chair of this House as Speaker", which was carried without any audible opposition. After this, Hoyle was dragged to the Chair (as per House custom) by
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and Caroline Flint, and gave an inaugural speech as Speaker elect. Hoyle received royal approbation later in the evening from the royal commissioners and, at that time, officially became Speaker. Hoyle was re-elected, unopposed, to the position on 17 December 2019 following the general election of 12 December.


Notes


References

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