The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Labour MP, Ernest Spero citing ill health[1] (although he was shortly to be declared bankrupt).
Sir Cyril Cobb, the Unionist candidate, had been the Member of Parliament for Fulham West from 1918 until he lost the seat to Ernest Spero in 1929, although in the previous two general elections his majority had been less than 2,000 votes.
Cobb was also a long time member, and former chairman of the London County Council.
[2] The Labour Party put forward John Banfield, an official in the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers, Confectioners and Allied Workers and a member of Fulham Borough Council.
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