The by-election was held due to the succession to the peerage of the incumbent Conservative MP, Henry Mond.
[1] Mond, a former Liberal had won the seat for the Conservatives at a by-election in 1929 and had held it with an increased at the 1929 general election a few weeks later.
[2] Buchan-Hepburn had previously served on the London County Council and as a private secretary to Winston Churchill.
[3] At the general election later in the year Patrick Buchan-Hepburn scored an even greater victory, defeating a Liberal by over 19,000 votes.
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