[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 by-election was caused when the Member of Parliament, the George Whiteley resigned from Parliament by accepting appointment as Steward of the Manor of Northstead.
[2] Frederick Ogden, John James Oddy and J. W. Benson were the three candidates.
Eccentric poet Arthur Hunnable announced that he would contest the election, but failed to submit nomination papers.
On 26 June, it was announced that Whiteley, the former MP, had been awarded a peerage and would take a seat in the House of Lords.