It was redistributed to Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale and Dumfries and Galloway as part of a major reorganisation of Scottish constituencies.

It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system.

Douglas succeeded to the peerage, becoming 8th Marquess of Queensberry and causing a by-election.

Waterlow was disqualified, owing to holding a government contract at the time of the election, causing a by-election.

The political parties had been making preparations for an election to take place and by July 1914, the following candidates had been selected;