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The Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons election, 2015 will be held on December 3, 2015, at the beginning of the first session of the 42nd Canadian House of Commons, following the 2015 federal election. Conservative MP Andrew Scheer, the incumbent Speaker was re-elected 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 appointed Opposition House Leader by Interim Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose, thus removing him from consideration for the Speakership. ==Process== Speakers are elected by secret, preferential ballot of all MPs. All MPs except for Cabinet ministers and party leaders are eligible to run for the Speakership and are automatically placed on the ballot unless they withdraw their name. Any MP not wishing to put his or her name forward must issue a letter withdrawing from the ballot by the day before the vote. All MPs who do not remove their name from the ballot as of 6 pm the day before the election are listed as candidates on the ballot. MPs who subsequently decide not to run or whose letters of withdrawal were, for whatever reason, not received have an additional opportunity to remove their names from consideration on the floor of the Commons. Candidates are then allowed a five-minute speech to persuade their colleagues as to why they should be elected. The election is presided over by the Dean of the House (the longest continuously serving MP who is not in Cabinet), in this case Louis Plamondon. Once the ballots are issued, MPs rank the candidates in order of preference rather than voting for a single candidate. Votes are initially distributed based on each elector's first preference. If a candidate secures more than half of votes cast, that candidate wins. Otherwise, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated. Ballots assigned to the eliminated candidate are recounted and added to the totals of the remaining candidates based on who is ranked next on each ballot. This process continues until one candidate wins by obtaining more than half the votes. If a voter ranks some, but not all of the candidates, the ballot is counted until it is exhausted (i.e., it can no longer be distributed to a remaining candidate).〔Standing Orders of the Canadian House of Commons, Chapter I, sec. 4(4)–(10).〕 The winner is escorted to the Speaker's chair by the Prime Minister and Leader of the Official Opposition. The newly elected Speaker, by tradition, feigns reluctance as he or she is "dragged" to the chair in a practice dating from the days when British Speakers risked execution if the news they reported to the King was displeasing. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons election, 2015」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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