It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.

He was appointed as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury and he was obliged to stand again in a ministerial by-election.

[1] The local Conservative Association re-selected 50 year-old Lord Edmund Talbot as their candidate to defend the seat.

The local Liberal Association selected 33 year-old John Ernest Allen as their candidate to challenge for the seat.

Allen was a Barrister-at-law, who had been educated at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities where he gained a Master of Arts.