| Country: | Japan |
| Flag Year: | 1870 |
| Type: | parliamentary |
| Previous Election: | 1955 Japanese general election |
| Previous Year: | 1955 |
| Election Date: | 22 May 1958 |
| Next Election: | 1960 Japanese general election |
| Next Year: | 1960 |
| Seats For Election: | All 467 seats in the House of Representatives of Japan |
| Majority Seats: | 234 |
| Turnout: | 76.98% (1.15pp) |
| Leader1: | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Party1: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| Last Election1: | 63.18%, 297 seats |
| Seats1: | 287 |
| Seat Change1: | 10 |
| Popular Vote1: | 22,976,846 |
| Percentage1: | 57.80% |
| Swing1: | 5.38pp |
| Leader2: | Mosaburō Suzuki |
| Party2: | Japan Socialist Party |
| Last Election2: | 30.18%, 157 seats |
| Seats2: | 166 |
| Seat Change2: | 9 |
| Popular Vote2: | 13,093,993 |
| Percentage2: | 32.94% |
| Swing2: | 2.76pp |
| Prime Minister | |
| Before Election: | Nobusuke Kishi |
| Before Party: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
| After Election: | Nobusuke Kishi |
| After Party: | Liberal Democratic Party (Japan) |
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.[1] Voter turnout was 77.0%.
The Japan Socialist Party only ran 246 candidates. The Japanese Communist Party, which strategically withdrew some of its candidates in favor of the JSP in the 1956 elections, ran 114 candidates.
This election had the highest turnout for a post-war election so far.
| Prefecture | Total seats | Seats won | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LDP | JSP | JCP | Others | Ind. | |||
| Aichi | 19 | 10 | 8 | 1 | |||
| Akita | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Aomori | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Chiba | 13 | 10 | 3 | ||||
| Ehime | 9 | 8 | 1 | ||||
| Fukui | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Fukuoka | 19 | 12 | 7 | ||||
| Fukushima | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | |||
| Gifu | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Gunma | 10 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| Hiroshima | 12 | 9 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Hokkaido | 22 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| Hyōgo | 18 | 10 | 7 | 1 | |||
| Ibaraki | 12 | 8 | 4 | ||||
| Ishikawa | 6 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| Iwate | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Kagawa | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Kagoshima | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | |||
| Kanagawa | 13 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Kōchi | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Kumamoto | 10 | 7 | 3 | ||||
| Kyoto | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| Mie | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Miyagi | 9 | 5 | 4 | ||||
| Miyazaki | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Nagano | 13 | 7 | 5 | 1 | |||
| Nagasaki | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | |||
| Nara | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Niigata | 15 | 8 | 6 | 1 | |||
| Ōita | 7 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| Okayama | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| Osaka | 19 | 11 | 7 | 1 | |||
| Saga | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Saitama | 13 | 9 | 4 | ||||
| Shiga | 5 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Shimane | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Shizuoka | 14 | 10 | 4 | ||||
| Tochigi | 10 | 6 | 4 | ||||
| Tokushima | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||
| Tokyo | 27 | 12 | 15 | ||||
| Tottori | 4 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Toyama | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Wakayama | 6 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| Yamagata | 8 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Yamaguchi | 9 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Yamanashi | 5 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 467 | 287 | 166 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |