Liverpool Walton is a constituency[n 1] represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Dan Carden of the Labour Party.

[7] Labour has won over 70% of the vote at every general election in the Walton constituency since 1992, although for many years it was looked on as a reasonably safe Conservative seat.

[8] In 2015, Liverpool Walton was the only constituency in England where the Conservative candidate (Norsheen Bhatti) lost their deposit.

[9] In percentage terms, Carden's vote share and majority were unmatched by any candidate in any constituency at the 2019 election,[16] although higher turnouts and larger electorates saw fifteen other MPs — twelve Labour in London and one in Merseyside, and three Conservatives in Lincolnshire and Essex — win with bigger numerical majorities.

Gibson resigned after being appointed a Judge of the Queen's Bench Division in the High Court of Justice in Ireland, 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;