which several of the candidates did not attend. Withdrew prior to nomination The following candidate withdrew before the election was held: Frank Field (Labour) – withdrew citing a lack of support from his own party; endorsed Widdecombe Nominations No official list of MPs who nominated candidates was publicly released. A partial list of nominations is as follows: Margaret Beckett – Denis MacShane (Lab), Ann Coffey (Lab), Richard Caborn (Lab), Linda Gilroy (Lab), Lynda Waltho (Lab), Glenda Jackson (Lab), John Battle (Lab), Clive Efford (Lab), Kelvin Hopkins (Lab), Geoffrey Robinson (Lab), Andy Slaughter (Lab), Paul Murphy (Lab), Greg Knight (Con), Angela Browning (Con), Sylvia Hermon (UUP). Alan Beith – Alan Whitehead (Lab), Denis Murphy (Lab), Mark Lazarowicz (Lab), Martin Linton (Lab), Fiona McTaggart (Lab), Elfyn Llwyd (Plaid), Vince Cable (LD), Jenny Willott (LD), Michael Moore (LD), Annette Brooke (LD), Chris Huhne (LD), Phil Willis (LD), Roger Williams (LD), Greg Mulholland (LD), Steve Webb (LD). John Bercow – Dai Davies (Ind), Charles Walker (Con), Malcolm Bruce (LD), Adam Price (Plaid), Karen Buck (Lab), Sandra Gidley (LD), Julie Morgan (Lab), Natascha Engel (Lab), Peter Kilfoyle (Lab), David Laws (LD), Anne Begg (Lab), Pete Wishart (SNP), Sadiq Khan (Lab), Patricia Hewitt (Lab), Mark Durkan (SDLP). Patrick Cormack – Peter Lilley (Con). Four other Conservatives, five from Labour, among others. Parmjit Dhanda – Malcolm Wicks (Lab), Alison Seabeck (Lab), David Drew (Lab), Howard Stoate (Lab), John Hemming (LD), among others. Sir Alan Haselhurst – John Gummer (Con), Daniel Kawczynski (Con), Michael Fallon (Con), Robert Walter (Con), Oliver Heald (Con), Edward Leigh (Con), Eddie O'Hara (Lab), Harry Cohen (Lab), George Howarth (Lab), Jim Dowd (Lab), Eric Illsley (Lab), Janet Anderson (Lab), John Thurso (LD), Bob Russell (LD). Sir Michael Lord – No nominations publicly available. Richard Shepherd – No nominations publicly available. Ann Widdecombe – Frank Field (Lab), Kim Howells (Lab), John Grogan (Lab), Jim Dobbin (Lab), Nigel Evans (Con), Mark Pritchard (Con), Philip Hollobone (Con), Nadine Dorries (Con), Sammy Wilson (DUP), among others. Sir George Young – Chris Mullin (Lab), Tony Wright (Lab), Stephen Pound (Lab), Fabian Hamilton (Lab), Keith Hill (Lab), Richard Ottaway (Con), Gary Streeter (Con), Michael Jack (Con), James Arbuthnot (Con), Nicholas Soames (Con), Michael Ancram (Con), John Butterfill (Con), David Curry (Con), Peter Bottomley (Con), Peter Luff (Con). Results The result of the first secret ballot was announced at 17:10 on 22 June 2009, after the nominated candidates had all addressed