1960 Mid Bedfordshire by-election

UK Parliamentary by-election August 2019 August 2019 The 1960 Mid Bedfordshire by-election was held on 16 November 1960 after the incumbent Conservative MP, Alan Lennox-Boyd became an hereditary peer. It was won by the Conservative candidate Stephen Hastings. Lennox-Boyd had held the seat in 1959 with a majority of 5,174 votes of the Labour Party's Bryan Magee. At the by-election Magee was again the Labour candidate, while the Liberals also fielded their 1959 candidate, W. G. Matthews.Craig F. W. S. F. W. S. Craig British parliamentary Election Results 1950-1970 1971 Political Reference Publications Chichester 0 900178 02 7 324 Mid Bedfordshire by-election, 1960http://www.by-elections.co.uk/60.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131016154925/http://www.by-elections.co.uk/60.html 1960 By Election Results 2013-10-16 dead 2015-08-15 Conservative Party (UK) Stephen Hastings 17,503 45.38 -1.41 Labour Party (UK) Bryan Magee 11,281 29.25 -6.17 Liberal Party (UK) Wilfred G. Matthews 9,550 24.76 +6.97 New Conservative C. F. H. Gilliard 235 0.61 New 6,222 16.13 +4.77 38,569 71.10 Conservative Party (UK) References See also 2023 Mid Bedfordshire by-election Mid Bedfordshire 1960 Mid Bedfordshire by-election Mid Bedfordshire Mid Bedfordshire 1960