[1] The constituency returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
The seat had become vacant following the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Evelyn Hubbard on the advice of his doctors.
[2][3] Hubbard vacated his Parliamentary seat by being appointed Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds on 14 March 1900.
William Kidson, the Conservative Party election agent, died on Saturday 24 August of pneumonia.
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