The seat had become vacant on when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Alfred Bird had died at the age of 72 on 7 February 1922.
The Labour Party candidate was 49-year-old Alexander Walkden, who had contested the seat in 1918.
The Liberal Party, did not field a candidate at the last general election and decided not to do so again for the by-election.
George Thorne, the Liberal MP for Wolverhampton East supported the Labour Party candidate.
[1] On an increased turnout, the result was a victory for the Coalition Conservative candidate, Sir Robert Bird, although his majority was somewhat reduced from that won by his father in 1918.