The seat had become vacant when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Ronald Nall-Cain had succeeded to the peerage as Baron Brocket.
The Conservative candidate was James Platt, but Randolph Churchill (son of the future Prime Minister Winston Churchill) stood as an "independent Conservative".
The Labour Party candidate was 32-year-old Joseph Cleary, a local magistrate.
The Liberal Party selected 49 year-old Liverpool solicitor, Tudor Artro Morris as their candidate.
[1] With the Conservative vote split between the official candidate and the independent Churchill, the result was a victory for the Labour candidate, Joseph Jackson Cleary, who took the seat on a swing of 30%.