2000 Speaker of the British House of Commons election for electing a Speaker were changed the following year to a use a secret and exhaustive ballot. This procedure was first used in the Speaker election of 2009. Under the old system for electing Speakers of the House of Commons, a candidate would be nominated and seconded, and alternative candidates would be offered as 'amendments' to that initial motion. In 2000, 11 candidates stepped forward, leading Sir Edward Heath, presiding in his capacity as Father of the House, to have the candidates voted on two at a time. He called Michael Martin to be nominated first. In the event, no
2016 Speaker of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) election 2016 Speaker of the House of Representatives (Netherlands) election The 2016 Speaker of the House of Representatives (Dutch: "Voorzitter van de Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal") election was called to elect the new Speaker of the House of Representatives after incumbent Anouchka van Miltenburg of the People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) had resigned on 12 December 2015. Van Miltenburg who had been the Speaker since 25 September 2012 resigned after increasing criticism on her performance as Speaker. Khadija Arib of the Labour Party (PvdA) who had been a Member of the House of Representatives from 19 May 1998 until