title: 1960 Mid Bedfordshire by-election
text: # 1960 Mid Bedfordshire by-election
  
  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.
  
  Mid Bedfordshire by-election, 1960 :
  
  | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | Conservative | Stephen Hastings | 17,503 | 45.38 | -1.41 |
  | | Labour | Bryan Magee | 11,281 | 29.25 | -6.17 |
  | | Liberal | Wilfred G. Matthews | 9,550 | 24.76 | +6.97 |
  | | New Conservative | C. F. H. Gilliard | 235 | 0.61 | New |
  | Majority | Majority | Majority | 6,222 | 16.13 | +4.77 |
  | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 38,569 | 71.10 | |
  | | Conservative hold | Conservative hold | Swing | | |
  