The first election for Lord Speaker

Lord Speaker

The Lord Speaker is the speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. The office is analogous to the Speaker of the House of Commons: the Lord Speaker is elected by the members of the House of Lords and is expected to be politically impartial.Until July 2006, the role of...

 was held on 28 June 2006 and announced on 6 July 2006, after the House of Lords

House of Lords

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 had determined the name, powers and responsibilities of the office following removal of the speakership from Lord Chancellor

Lord Chancellor

The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...

 by the Constitutional Reform Act 2005

Constitutional Reform Act 2005

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.

Candidates

A list of nine candidates for election as the first Lord Speaker was announced on 6 June 2006:

• Lord Boston of Faversham
  Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham
  Terence George Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham QC was a British Labour Party politician. He was educated at King's College London where he took an LLB in law in 1954, and was called to the bar at Inner Temple in 1960....
  
   (Crossbench)
• Lord Elton
  Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton
  Rodney Elton, 2nd Baron Elton is a British politician and Conservative member of the House of Lords.Lord Elton was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. The son of Godfrey Elton, 1st Baron Elton, Lord Elton succeeded to the peerage on his father's death in 1973...
  
   (Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
  )
• Baroness Fookes
  Janet Fookes, Baroness Fookes
  Janet Evelyn Fookes, Baroness Fookes, DBE, DL , is a British politician. A member of the Conservative Party, she is a Life Peer in the House of Lords. She was previously a member of the House of Commons from 1970 from 1997, representing the constituencies of Merton and Morden and Plymouth Drake...
  
   (Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
  )
• Lord Grenfell
  Julian Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell
  Julian Pascoe Francis St Leger Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell is a Labour peer in the House of Lords known for his strong Europhile views...
  
   (Non-affiliated)
• Baroness Hayman
  Helene Hayman, Baroness Hayman
  Helene Valerie Hayman, Baroness Hayman, PC was Lord Speaker of the House of Lords in the Parliament of the United Kingdom. As a member of the Labour Party she was a Member of Parliament from 1974 to 1979, and became a Life Peer in 1996...
  
   (Labour
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
  )
• Countess of Mar
  Margaret of Mar, 30th Countess of Mar
  Margaret of Mar, 31st Countess of Mar and 24th Lady Garioch, is a crossbench member of the House of Lords, an elected hereditary peer, the holder of the original Earldom of Mar, the oldest peerage title in the United Kingdom and a farmer and specialist cheesemaker in Worcestershire...
  
   (Crossbench)
• Lord Richard
  Ivor Richard, Baron Richard
  Ivor Seward Richard, Baron Richard, PC , is a British politician belonging to the Labour Party and former member of the Commission of the European Communities.-Background:...
  
   (Labour
  Labour Party (UK)
  The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
  
  )
• Lord Redesdale
  Rupert Mitford, 6th Baron Redesdale
  Rupert Mitford, 6th Baron Redesdale is a British peer and politician. He currently sits in the House of Lords as a life peer, Baron Mitford with the Liberal Democrats.Mitford succeeded to the title in 1991...
  
   (Liberal Democrat
  Liberal Democrats
  The Liberal Democrats are a social liberal political party in the United Kingdom which supports constitutional and electoral reform, progressive taxation, wealth taxation, human rights laws, cultural liberalism, banking reform and civil liberties .The party was formed in 1988 by a merger of the...
  
  )
• Viscount Ullswater
  Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater
  Nicholas James Christopher Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater, LVO, PC , succeeded his great-grandfather in the Viscountcy of Ullswater in 1949...
  
   (Conservative
  Conservative Party (UK)
  The Conservative Party, formally the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom that adheres to the philosophies of conservatism and British unionism. It is the largest political party in the UK, and is currently the largest single party in the House...
  
  )

Result

The result of the election was announced on 4 July 2006, and Baroness Hayman immediately replaced the Lord Chancellor on the Woolsack

Woolsack

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. The Lord Chamberlain

Lord Chamberlain

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, Lord Luce, was on hand to confirm the approval of the Queen to the election.