[1] It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post voting system.
Seymour King the Conservative MP since 1885 was unseated on petition on 1 June 1911.
The seat was held for the Conservative Party by Mark Sykes.
By the autumn of 1914, the following candidates had been adopted to contest that election.
Due to the outbreak of war, the election never took place.