1817 Speaker of the British House of Commons election

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1817 Speaker of the British House of Commons election
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  1802 2 June 1817 1833  
  Charles Manners Sutton, 1st Viscount Canterbury by Henry William Pickersgill.jpg Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn.JPG
Candidate Charles Manners-Sutton Charles Williams-Wynn
Party Tory Tory
Popular vote312152
Percentage67.2%32.8%
Candidate's seat Scarborough Montgomeryshire

Speaker before election

Charles Abbot

Elected Speaker

Charles Manners-Sutton

The 1817 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 2 June 1817. [1] [2]

The incumbent Speaker Charles Abbot had resigned due to ill health.

Charles Manners-Sutton was proposed by Sir John Nicholl and seconded by E. J. Littleton.

Charles Williams-Wynn was proposed by William Dickinson and seconded by Sir Matthew White Ridley.

Both candidates addressed the House. A debate followed.

On the motion "That the Right Honourable Charles Manners Sutton do take the chair of this House as Speaker," Manners-Sutton was elected by 312 votes to 152 [2] (Hansard gives the votes against as 150 [1] ).

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References

  1. 1 2 "Choice of a Speaker". Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) . Vol. 36. House of Commons. 2 June 1817. col. 843–55.
  2. 1 2 Journals of the House of Commons. Vol. 72. 1817. pp. 306–307.