At the by-election Lady Noel-Buxton won the seat with a majority of only 139 votes over the Conservative candidate Thomas Cook.

[4] Cook opposed her again at the 1931 general election and this time she lost by nearly 7,000 votes as Labour suffered a landslide defeat nationally.

She stood again at the 1935 general election, and was again defeated, but did manage to halve Cook's majority.

She met the then Liberal politician Noel Buxton while campaigning against him on behalf of the Conservatives in 1910.

They married in 1914, living initially at Paycocke's House in Coggeshall, Essex, and had six children.