Woodstock (UK Parliament constituency)

Under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885, the borough was abolished and was reconstituted as the Mid or Woodstock Division of Oxfordshire when the three-member Parliamentary County of Oxfordshire was divided into the three single-member constituencies of Banbury, Woodstock and Henley.

It comprised the middle part of Oxfordshire, including Witney and Bicester as well as the abolished borough.

Thesiger was appointed Solicitor-General for England and Wales and decided to contest Abingdon, causing a by-election.

Spencer-Churchill resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, 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;