Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons election, 2015

The Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons election, 2015 was held on December 3, 2015, at the beginning of the first session of the 42nd Canadian House of Commons, following the 2015 federal election. Geoff Regan, the Liberal MP for Halifax West won.

Regan replaced Conservative MP Andrew Scheer, the incumbent Speaker who 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.

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.

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