@Tes yeux noirs,
Quote Tes:
Quote:Only some committee chairs are elected, and the people who vote are the members of the House of Commons.
That's what I thought. Walter's link had more to do with methods of voting used by any group in UK, and not so much to do with how general elections are conducted in the UK.
The UK and US systems are similar, in the US the majority party in both the House and the the Senate vote as a bloc for the house's leader, (whether Speaker of the House or Senate Majority Leader), the members of the committees, (majority party in that chamber always means majority in each and every committee), and the chairmen of each committee.