Kendal (UK Parliament constituency)

It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system.

The small Kendal parliamentary borough constituency created in 1832 was abolished in 1885 by the Reform Act 1884.

The two Conservative members for the old constituency William Lowther and the Earl of Bective were reelected in the 1885 general election, Mr Lowther for the Appleby Division and the Earl of Bective for the Kendal Division.

These two constituencies were recombined under one member John Wakefield Weston for the 1918 general election.

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