The following elections occurred in the year 1958.

Africa

1958 French Togoland parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in French Togoland on 27 April 1958. The result was a victory for the Party of Togolese Unity, Committee of Togolese Unity, which won 29 of the 46 seats in the National Assembly of Togo, Legislative Assembly. Vote ...

1958 Nigerien Constituent Assembly election Territorial Assembly elections were held in Niger on 14 December 1958. The result was a victory for the Union for the Franco-African Community (an alliance of the Nigerien Progressive Party – African Democratic Rally and the African Regroupmen ...

1958 South African general election General elections were held in South Africa on 16 April 1958. The result was a victory for the National Party, now under the leadership of J. G. Strijdom after the retirement of D. F. Malan in 1954. The opposition United Party campaigned for ...

1958 Southern Rhodesian general election General elections were held in Southern Rhodesia on 5 June 1958 for the seats in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly. Although the Dominion Party received the most votes, the result was a victory for the ruling United Federal Party, whic ...

* 1958 Sudanese parliamentary election * 1958–1959 Tanganyikan general election *

1958 Ugandan general election General elections were held in Uganda between 20 and 24 October 1958.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband'', p2325 They were the first elections to t ...

Asia

1958 Laotian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Laos on 4 May 1958, in order to elect an additional 21 seats to the enlarged National Assembly, the lower chamber of Parliament. The Lao Patriotic Front won the most seats,Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christ ...

1958 Singapore City Council by-election A by-election for the City Council of the City of Singapore, Singapore City Council was held in 1958 after the resignation of Chang Yuen Tong, a member who held the seat for Kallang Constituency. While he cited his inability to reconcile the demands ...

* 1958 Soviet Union legislative election *

1958 Japanese general election General elections were held in Japan on 22 May 1958. The result was a victory for the Liberal Democratic Party, which won 298 of the 467 seats.Dieter Nohlen, Florian Grotz & Christof Hartmann (2001) ''Elections in Asia: A data handbook, Volume I ...

* 1958 Lebanese presidential election

Europe

1958 Finnish parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Finland on 6 and 7 July 1958.Dieter Nohlen, Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p606 The communist Finnish People's Democratic League emerged as the largest party, but was ...

1958 French presidential election The 1958 French presidential election was the first held under the French Fifth Republic, on 21 December. It was the sole presidential election by electoral college (gathering the members of the French Parliament, the general councils, the ove ...

1958 Greek legislative election Parliamentary elections were held in Greece on 11 May 1958.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p830 The result was a second consecutive victory for Konstantinos Karamanlis and his National Radical Unio ...

* 1958 Belgian general election * 1958 Albanian parliamentary election *

1958 Portuguese presidential election Presidential elections were held in Portugal on 8 June 1958, during the authoritarian Estado Novo regime led by Prime Minister António de Oliveira Salazar. Incumbent President Francisco Craveiro Lopes had clashed with Salazar and did not see ...

* 1958 Soviet Union legislative election *

1958 Swedish general election Early general elections were held in Sweden on 1 June 1958,Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1858 after the defeat of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, Social Democratic government's proposals fo ...

1958 Italian general election The 1958 Italian general election was held in Italy on 25 May 1958. The number of MPs to be elected was calculated upon the population's size for the last time. Electoral system Minor changes were made to the electoral law in 1958, creating a s ...

* 1958 conclave

France

1958 French constitutional referendum A constitutional referendum was held in France on 28 September 1958.Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p674 Voters were asked whether they approved of the adoption of a constitution for the French Fi ...

1958 French legislative election Legislative elections were held in France on 23 and 30 November 1958 to elect the first National Assembly (France), National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic. Since 1954, the French Fourth Republic had been mired in the Algerian War. In Ma ...

United Kingdom

1958 Islington North by-election The 1958 Islington North by-election was a parliamentary by-election held on 15 May 1958 for the House of Commons constituency of Islington North in Islington, North London. Background The seat had become vacant when the sitting Labour Member ...

1958 Northern Ireland general election The 1958 Northern Ireland general election was called on 27 February by 1st Viscount Brookeborough to be held on 20 March 1958. Like all previous elections to the Parliament of Northern Ireland, it produced a large majority for the Ulster Uni ...

1958 Rochdale by-election The 1958 Rochdale by-election held on 13 February was a by-election for the constituency of Rochdale, in Lancashire, England, in the House of Commons. It was called following the death on 16 December 1957 of the sitting Conservative Member of Pa ...

1958 Torrington by-election The 1958 Torrington by-election, in Devon, England, was the first gain by the British Liberal Party at a by-election since Holland with Boston in 1929. Background The election was caused by the accession of George Lambert, National Liberal and ...

North America

Canada

1958 Canadian federal election The 1958 Canadian federal election was held to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 24th Parliament of Canada on March 31, 1958, just nine months after the 23rd election. It transformed Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's mi ...

1958 Edmonton municipal election The 1958 municipal election was held October 15, 1958 to elect six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, four trustees to sit on the separate school board, and three trustees to sit on the public school board. There was no election for mayor, ...

1958 Manitoba general election The 1958 Manitoba general election was held on June 16, 1958 to elect Members of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Manitoba, Canada. The election resulted in a minority victory for the Progressive Conservative Party under the leadersh ...

1958 Ottawa municipal election The city of Ottawa, Canada held municipal elections on December 1, 1958. Mayor George Nelms is re-elected with a comfortable margin. Mayor of Ottawa Ottawa Board of Control (4 elected) City council (2 elected from each ward) ...

* 1958 Toronto municipal election * 1958 Yukon general election * 1958 New Brunswick Liberal Association leadership election

Caribbean

1958 West Indies federal elections Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

Mexico

1958 Mexican general election General elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1958.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p453 The presidential elections were won by Adolfo López Mateos, who received 90.4% of the vote. In the Chamber ...

United States

1958 United States gubernatorial elections United States gubernatorial elections were held in 1958, in 34 states, concurrent with the House and Senate elections, on November 4, 1958 (September 8 in Maine, November 25 in Alaska). Alaska held its first gubernatorial election on achievin ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in California, 1958 *

1958 California gubernatorial election The 1958 California gubernatorial election was held on Tuesday November 4. Incumbent governor Goodwin Knight initially ran for re-election to a third term, but eventually withdrew and ran for 1958 United States Senate election in California, el ...

* 1958 Maine gubernatorial election * 1958 Massachusetts gubernatorial election *

1958 Minnesota gubernatorial election The 1958 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 4, 1958. Minnesota Democratic–Farmer–Labor Party candidate Orville Freeman defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger George MacKinnon. Results See also * ...

* 1958 New Orleans mayoral election *

1958 New York state election The 1958 New York state election was held on November 4, 1958, to elect the governor, the lieutenant governor, the state comptroller, the attorney general, a judge of the New York Court of Appeals and a U.S. Senator, as well as all members of ...

* United States House of Representatives elections in South Carolina, 1958 *

1958 South Carolina gubernatorial election The 1958 South Carolina gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1958 to select the Governor of South Carolina, governor of the state of South Carolina. Ernest Hollings won the Democratic primary against rival Donald S. Russell and ran u ...

1958 United States House of Representatives elections The 1958 United States House of Representatives elections was an election for the United States House of Representatives to elect members to serve in the 86th United States Congress. They were held for the most part on November 4, 1958, in the mid ...

1958 United States Senate elections The 1958 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate which occurred in the middle of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term. Thirty-two seats of Classes of United States senators, Class 1 were contested in reg ...

United States gubernatorial

* 1958 Oregon gubernatorial election

United States Senate

* United States Senate election in Massachusetts, 1958 * United States Senate election in North Dakota, 1958

South America

1958 Argentine general election The Argentine general election of 1958 was held on 23 February. Voters chose both the President and their legislators and with a turnout of 90.6% (the highest in Argentine electoral history). Background The year 1955 cast a long shadow over the ...

1958 Chilean presidential election Presidential elections were held in Chile on 4 September 1958.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p262 The result was a victory for Jorge Alessandri, who ran as an independent. Allende's defeat has bee ...

1958 Guatemalan general election General elections were held in Guatemala on 19 January 1958 after the 1957 elections were nullified. After no candidate received 50% or more of the national vote, Miguel Ydígoras Fuentes was elected President by Congress on 12 February 1958, whi ...

1958 Salvadoran legislative election Legislative elections were held in El Salvador on 23 March 1958.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p276 The result was a victory for the Revolutionary Party of Democratic Unification, which won all 5 ...

1958 Uruguayan general election General elections were held in Uruguay on 30 November 1958, alongside a constitutional referendum.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II'', p494 Following the end of a schism between the National Party and ...

* 1958 Venezuelan presidential election

Oceania

Australia

1958 Australian federal election Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thi ...