[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 Liberal candidate was 30-year-old Harold Lawson Murphy, a lecturer in Political Economy in Trinity College Dublin.

He had trained as a solicitor and was secretary to the Liberal Cabinet Minister, Sir John Simon.

He called for the Labour and Liberal parties to come to some sort of electoral arrangement as had been the practice in the past.

Joseph Davies, who had been adopted as Liberal candidate back in 1913 was a supporter of David Lloyd George and in 1918 was granted the 'Coalition Coupon'.