The election in which there were 81 candidates wasn't a speakership election. That was the first of our byelections when one of the hereditary peers.... Basically 10% of the hereditary peers stayed on after the reform of the House in 1999, so these were candidates from outside the House. In our two speakership elections, the number of candidates has been nine in the first case and six in the second.
On October 2nd, 2014. See this statement in context.