| Country: | Great Britain |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | no |
| Previous Election: | 1817 Speaker of the British House of Commons election |
| Previous Year: | 1817 |
| Next Election: | 1835 Speaker of the British House of Commons election |
| Next Year: | 1835 |
| Election Date: | 29 January 1833 |
| 1Blank: | Candidate's seat |
| Candidate1: | Charles Manners-Sutton |
| Party1: | Speaker (politics) |
| 1Data1: | Cambridge University |
| Popular Vote1: | 241 |
| Percentage1: | 88.6% |
| Candidate2: | Edward Littleton |
| Party2: | Whigs (British political party) |
| 1Data2: | Staffordshire South |
| Popular Vote2: | 31 |
| Percentage2: | 11.4% |
| Speaker | |
| Before Election: | Charles Manners-Sutton |
| After Election: | Charles Manners-Sutton |
The 1833 election of the Speaker of the House of Commons occurred on 29 January 1833.[1]
This was the first Parliament after the Reform Act 1832. Not wishing to have an inexperienced Speaker preside over the reformed Parliament, the government persuaded the long-serving incumbent Speaker Charles Manners-Sutton to postpone his retirement.[2] He was standing for a seventh term as Speaker.
Joseph Hume (Radical) objected that Manners-Sutton, a vocal opponent of the reform, should not preside over a reformed Parliament. He proposed Edward Littleton (Whig). Daniel O'Connell (Irish Nationalist) seconded.
Viscount Morpeth, although a Whig, commended Manners-Sutton's conduct as Speaker, and proposed him. Sir Francis Burdett (Radical) seconded.
A debate ensued. Littleton spoke against his own nomination, stating his support for Manners-Sutton and asking that Manners-Sutton be elected without a division.
O'Connell objected to this: he would not countenance a Tory Speaker after the reform, believing that "the grand advantage of the Reform Bill was to put down Toryism in England — that vile and abominable system, which existed by the plunder of the people, and by the usurpation of their rights".
Among other objections to Manners-Sutton was the pension awarded on the basis that he was retiring: if re-elected he might draw both a pension and a salary.
Voting on Hume's motion that Littleton take the Chair, the motion was defeated by 31 votes to 241, a majority of 210. The amended motion that Manners-Sutton take the Chair was then passed without division.[1]
The elections of 1833 and 1835 (in which Manners-Sutton was defeated) were the only elections since 1780 in which an incumbent Speaker seeking re-election was opposed.