1958 Kuwaiti general election

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General elections were held in Kuwait on 28 March 1958.^[1] Voters elected 55 members of a new advisory council. However, due to a dispute with the government, the new council was never convened.

Following two elections in 1938 and a dispute between Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and the elected Legislative Council, the sheikh dissolved the council in March 1939 and replaced it with a fully-appointed advisory council. However, the council ceased meeting in July 1940 after an investigation into the treasury's accounts.^[2]

In 1954 a petition was circulated calling for an elected council.^[3] Four years later Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, who had been involved in the creation of the original Legislative Council, held elections for a new advisory council.^[3]

Several of those elected had been elected to the previous Legislative Council in 1938, including Abdul Latif Mohammed Thunayan Al-Ghanim, Mishaan Khudair Mishaan Khudair, Nisf Youssef Al-Nisf, Youssef Abdul Wahab Al-Adsani and Youssef Saleh Al-Humaidhi.

Following the elections, the government demanded that three of the elected members resign from their posts. As a result, the newly elected council never met.^[3] The sheikh appointed members to a new Supreme Council the following year and in 1961 elections to a constitutional convention were held.^[3]