The Rayleigh Through the Looking Glass website is currently showing a nice collection of old political photos of Rayleigh.
This is part of a photo described as “Mr Buckland of Hullbridge Road canvassing in High St 1920” :
Clearly an active Liberal!
From what I was told by my Mum, the Liberal Party in Rayleigh between the wars was based on the nonconformist churches and tee-totallers. There’s more information about Mr Buckland here.