House of Commons Speaker election, Nov 2019

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Round 1

Sir Lindsay Hoyle - 211
Dame Eleanor Laing - 113
Chris Bryant - 98
Harriet Harman - 72
Dame Rosie Winterton - 46
Sir Edward Leigh - 12 -
Meg Hillier - 10 -

Round 2

Hoyle - 244
Laing - 122
Bryant - 120
Harman - 59
Winterton - 30

Harman drops out - a definite flop relative to media hype.

[DaWN]

Harman drops out - a definite flop relative to media hype.

Thank God, the irony of her becoming Speaker after her ridiculous welfare bill decision in 2015 indirectly causing all of this sh!t would have been too much to bear.

Anyway, good to see Hoyle looks like he'll win. Good guy and will be an excellent Speaker, particularly compared to the egotist he's replacing.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Anyway, good to see Hoyle looks like he'll win. Good guy and will be an excellent Speaker, particularly compared to the egotist he's replacing.

How dare you disrespect living legend JOHN BERCOW?

In all seriousness, whatever you can say about him personally, he has done more to restore the dignity and autonomy of the House of Commons than anyone else in more than a century, and deserves enormous credit on that basis alone.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

Laing seems pretty awful (I'm a particular "fan" of the concept of a former Shadow Women and Equalities Minister admonishing an MP in the third trimester for leaving the chamber to eat. WTF). Good thing she'll probably lose.

[DaWN]

Anyway, good to see Hoyle looks like he'll win. Good guy and will be an excellent Speaker, particularly compared to the egotist he's replacing.

How dare you disrespect living legend JOHN BERCOW?

In all seriousness, whatever you can say about him personally, he has done more to restore the dignity and autonomy of the House of Commons than anyone else in more than a century.

I appreciate his recent efforts which have definitely improved his standing in my view but his obvious self-importance and ego have always got up my nose, and I think despite his bluster he just hasn't been very effective at keeping Parliament in check which has turned events like PMQs into unwatchable messes. I appreciate that's just an opinion and not a widely held one on my side of the Brexit divide though.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Round three, still no winner:

Hoyle 267
Bryant 169
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Laing 127

Hoyle/Bryant as the last two.

[World politics is up Schmitt creek]

I know that the Speaker is not a partisan figure in the UK, but it's always amazing to me how nonpartisan the process of selecting him or her is. This is the second Speaker election in a row in which the final two candidates have been of the opposition party!

[Filuwaúrdjan]

I know that the Speaker is not a partisan figure in the UK, but it's always amazing to me how nonpartisan the process of selecting him or her is. This is the second Speaker election in a row in which the final two candidates have been of the opposition party!

And 3/4 since 1992.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

Comfortable win for Hoyle in the end - 325 to 212.