 However, in the 1924 general election it was the Conservatives under Stanley Baldwin, who were mostly credibly able to make a national appeal to farm workers as the champions of rural England and Emlyn-Jones lost his seat to Conservative candidate, Cecil Hanbury.Emlyn-Jones did not seek reselection for the Liberals at the 1929 general election.Instead he was adopted as candidate for Cardiff East being well known as a business man at the docks and as a resident of the constituency.