However he stepped down in November 2009 to concentrate on contesting the Speaker John Bercow's seat of Buckingham in the 2010 general election.

After Bercow's wife, Sally, was approved as a Labour parliamentary candidate and gave an interview about her personal life, Dorries argued that the Bercows were damaging the historic respect accorded to the office of Speaker.

On 25 June 2009, Oliver appeared on political talk show This Week to discuss issues relating to fashion-namely Speaker John Bercow's decision not to wear the traditional robes, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy's decision to ban the burqa in France.

When one of their letters was received by a member of the UK Independence Party, the recipient referred it to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, complaining that it appeared that Bercow's fundraising campaign was operating from the Speaker's Office, which is required to remain politically neutral.

Writing in the Daily Mail, just before his tenure was reapproved, she objected to Bercow's abandonment of the speaker's " magnificent " ceremonial clothes and placed herself among those MPs who accuse him of not carrying forward " the great tradition of authority, control and impartiality ".

Johnson proposed adoption of a rule allowing election of a Speaker by a plurality ; the rule was passed and Howell Cobb was so elected.

At the time of Cannon's election the Speaker of the House concurrently held the chair of the Rules Committee, which determined under what rules and restrictions bills could be debated, amended, and voted on, and in some cases whether they would be allowed on the floor at all.

The Speaker is elected by the assembly and is the first official to be elected in the first sitting of the Legislative Assembly following an election.

In 2004 Aníbal Acevedo Vilá ( PDP ) was declared the winner by the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico as governor, by about 3, 000 votes, but his party lost control of the Senate, which elected NPP Senator Kenneth McClintock as its president, and the House of Representatives, which chose the NPP's José Aponte as Speaker, and Puerto Rico's seat in Congress, due to the election of Luis Fortuño.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

After extensive deliberations attended by regional actors and international observers, the conference ended in a signed agreement between TFG President Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, Speaker of Parliament Sharif Adan Sharif Hassan, Puntland President Abdirahman Mohamed Farole, Galmudug President Mohamed Ahmed Alim and Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama ' a representative Khalif Abdulkadir Noor stipulating that: a ) a new 225 member bicameral parliament would be formed, consisting of an upper house seating 54 Senators as well as a lower house ; b ) 30 % of the National Constituent Assembly ( NCA ) is earmarked for women ; c ) the President is to be appointed via a constitutional election ; and d ) the Prime Minister is selected by the President and he / she then names his / her Cabinet.

Parliament designated Deputy Speaker Bonfoh Abbass as interim president until the inauguration of the election winner.

In 1933, incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis announced the election of House Speaker John Nance Garner as his successor, while Garner was seated next to him on the House dais.

A Presidential Commission ( made up the Chief Justice, the Speaker of Dáil Éireann, and the President of the High Court ) assumes the powers of the new presidency, pending the popular election of the first President of Ireland in June 1938.

In 1975, Washington was named chairman of the Judiciary Committee with the election of William A. Redmond as Speaker of the House.

As the 1876 Presidential election approached, Garfield was loyal to the candidacy of his House Speaker, James G. Blaine.

Henry Clay, unsuccessful candidate and Speaker of the House, despised Jackson, in part due to their fight for Western votes during the election, and he chose to support Adams, which led to him being elected President.

In a prelude to the presidential election, the Jacksonians bolstered their numbers in Congress in the 1826 Congressional elections ; Jackson ally Andrew Stevenson was chosen as the new Speaker of the House of Representatives over Adams ally Speaker John W. Taylor.

The three leading candidates were William Henry Harrison, a war hero and the most successful of Van Buren's opponents in the 1836 election ; Winfield Scott, another general, a hero of the War of 1812 and active in skirmishes with the British in 1837 and 1838 ; and Henry Clay, the Whigs ' congressional leader and former Speaker of the House.

It is usually obvious within two or three weeks of a House election who the new Speaker will be.

If the Speaker's party loses control of the House in an election, and if the Speaker and Majority Leader both remain in the leadership hierarchy, that would mean that they would become the Minority Leader and Minority Whip, respectively.

Furthermore, when no candidate received an Electoral College majority in the 1824 presidential election causing the president to be decided by the House, Speaker Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams instead of Andrew Jackson, thereby ensuring the former's victory.

Finally, it was agreed to exclude both delegations from the election ; a Speaker was finally chosen on December 17.

In 1997, several Republican Congressional leaders tried to force Speaker Newt Gingrich to resign ; however Gingrich refused since that would have required a new election for Speaker, which could led to the possibility that Democrats — along with dissenting Republicans — would vote for the Democrat Dick Gephardt ( then Minority Leader ) as Speaker.

Sometimes, however, the Speaker will play a big role even when they belong to the same party as the President, such as when Speaker Nancy Pelosi played a role in continuing the push for health care reform during the presidency of fellow Democrat Barack Obama ; subsequently the Republicans targeted her in the 2010 midterm election.

Though his election was interpreted by many Southerners as the forerunner of a dangerous shift in the federal balance in favor of the Union, Lincoln himself proposed no such change in the rights the Constitution gave the states.

Lane was still burning because he had narrowly missed election as governor of California in 1902 and laid his defeat to the antagonism of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner.

The resolution under discussion at the convention was to require the boards of election to instruct judges to properly display the American flag.

My discussion with reference to the resolution was that we should commend those citizens who serve as judges of election and who properly discharge their duty and polling place proprietors who make available their private premises, and not by innuendo criticize them.

We wish the President would remember that `` fiscal responsibility '' was the battle-cry of the party that lost the election.

In January, 1958, the Minister of the Interior announced that an election law was ready to be submitted to the King, the rumors of election dates appeared once again, first for spring of 1958 and later for the summer.

The jury further said in term-end presentments that the City Executive Committee, which had over-all charge of the election, `` deserves the praise and thanks of the City of Atlanta '' for the manner in which the election was conducted.

`` Only a relative handful of such reports was received '', the jury said, `` considering the widespread interest in the election, the number of voters and the size of this city ''.

`` This was the coolest, calmest election I ever saw '', Colquitt Policeman Tom Williams said.

The campaign leading to the election was not so quiet, however.

Ordinary Williams said he, too, was subjected to anonymous calls soon after he scheduled the election.

Mitchell said the closeness of the outcome in last fall's Presidential election did not mean that Eisenhower Republicanism was a dead issue.

`` This is the first time in 100 years that a candidate for the presidency announced the result of an election in which he was defeated '', he said.

The Hopkinsian universal disinterested benevolence, although holding to original sin and the doctrine of election, inspired its adherents to heroic endeavours for others, looked for the early coming of the Millennium, and was paralleled by the confidence in man's ability cherished by the Unitarians, Emerson, and the Transcendentalists.

His election was the signal for seven southern slave states to declare their secession from the Union and form the Confederacy.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

The stage was then set for the campaign for statewide election of the Illinois legislature which would, in turn, select Lincoln or Douglas as its U. S. senator.

Stanton was one of many conservative Democrats ( he supported Breckenridge in the 1860 election ) who became anti-slavery Republicans under Lincoln's leadership.

With the great Union victory at the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, and the defeat of the Copperheads in the Ohio election in the fall, Lincoln maintained a strong base of party support and was in a strong position to redefine the war effort, despite the New York City draft riots.

The Republican Party was determined to prevent any spread of slavery, and many Southern leaders had threatened secession if the Republican candidate, Lincoln, won the 1860 election.

The Secretary promulgated the Constitution of American Samoa which was approved by a Constitutional Convention of the people of American Samoa and a majority of the voters of American Samoa voting at the 1966 election, and came into effect in 1967.

At the 2 November 2004 election Eni F. H. Faleomavaega of the Democratic Party ( United States ) defeated the Republican candidate and was re-elected.

When a vacancy occurred, the bishop of the diocese chose the abbot out of the monks of the convent, but the right of election was transferred by jurisdiction to the monks themselves, reserving to the bishop the confirmation of the election and the benediction of the new abbot.