[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.
Sir Gilbert Parker had been Conservative MP for the seat of Gravesend since the 1900 general elections.
Parker had encountered few problems in holding the seat for the Conservatives, even in the Liberal landslide year of 1906.
Due to the war-time electoral truce, he faced no opposition from either the Liberal Party or the Labour Patty.
The Labour and Liberal parties also ran candidates, splitting the ant-coalition government vote and Richardson thus won easily.