1958 South African general election

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1958 South African general election

← 1953 16 April 1958 1961 →
All 156 general roll seats in the House of Assembly 79 seats needed for a majority
Registered	1,563,426
Turnout	74.42% ( 13.53pp)
First party Second party   Leader J. G. Strijdom De Villiers Graaff Party National United Last election 49.48%, 94 seats 47.65%, 57 seats Seats won 103 53 Seat change 9 4 Popular vote 642,006 492,080 Percentage 55.54% 42.57% Swing 6.06pp 5.08pp
Results by province
Prime Minister before election J. G. Strijdom National Elected Prime Minister J. G. Strijdom National

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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 the first time under De Villiers Graaff, who would remain party leader for two decades.

The National Party won 103 seats in the House of Assembly. It was the first election in South Africa with a whites-only electorate, following the removal of the Cape Qualified Franchise in the late 1950s, after the resolution of the coloured vote constitutional crisis. Coloured voters were now represented by four white MPs elected in separate constituencies, after the model introduced for native (black) voters in 1936. As these latter (NMP) seats were abolished in 1960, this was the only general election in which both separate coloured and native (Black) MPs were seated.^[1]