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
2015 Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons election 2015 Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons election The Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons election, 2015 was held on December 3, 2015, at the beginning of the first session of the 42nd Canadian House of Commons, following the 2015 federal election. Geoff Regan, the Liberal MP for Halifax West won. Regan replaced Conservative MP Andrew Scheer, the incumbent Speaker who was reelected to his riding in Regina—Qu'Appelle, although the incumbent Conservative government was defeated and became the Official Opposition. Scheer initially did not say if he would run for Speaker, but on November 18, 2015 he was