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The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Conservative Member Of Parliament (MP), Sir William Joynson-Hicks , had been elevated to the peerage as Viscount Brentford . He had held the seat its creation for the 1918 General Election .

The result was a narrow victory for the Conservative candidate Sir John Ferguson , from whom the Conservative Central Office withdrew support over his advocacy of Empire Free Trade . Ferguson died in office three years later, triggering the 1932 Twickenham By-election .


VOTES


  title Twickenham By-election, 8th August 1929


  party Conservative Party (UK)
  candidate Sir John Ferguson
  votes 14,705
  percentage 477
  change &minus08


  party Labour Party (UK)
  candidate TJ Mason
  votes 14,202
  percentage 461
  change +113


  party Liberal Party (UK)
  candidate FG Paterson
  votes 1,920
  percentage 62
  change &minus105


  votes 503
  percentage 16
  change &minus121


  percentage 495
  change &minus203


  winner Conservative Party (UK)
  swing &minus66



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