# 1958 Kuwaiti general election

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

## Background

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.
In 1954 a petition was circulated calling for an elected council. 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.

## Results

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.
| Candidate | Votes | Notes |
| Youssef Al-Fulaij | 397 | Elected |
| Abdulaziz Al-Hamad Al-Saqr | 370 | Elected |
| Hamad Abdul Mohsen Al-Mishari | 367 | Elected |
| Badr Al-Salem | 360 | Elected |
| Muhammad Abdul Mohsen Al-Nasser Al-Kharafi | 354 | Elected |
| Hammoud Al-Zaid Al-Khaled | 352 | Elected |
| Suleiman Al-Bassam | 328 | Elected |
| Mishaan Khudair Mishaan Khudair | 326 | Elected |
| Jassim Abdulaziz Abdulwahab Al-Qatami | 325 | Elected |
| Ahmed Saud Al-Khaled | 314 | Elected |
| Yousef Ibrahim Al-Ghanim | 311 | Elected |
| Hamad Al-Humaidhi | 302 | Elected |
| Khaled Suleiman Al-Adsani | 294 | Elected |
| Marzouk Bodi | 279 | Elected |
| Abdul Wahab Al-Othman | 272 | Elected |
| Khalifa Khaled Al-Ghunaim | 271 | Elected |
| Abdul Hamid Abdul Aziz Al-Sanea | 271 | Elected |
| Fahad Al-Marzouq | 263 | Elected |
| Yacoub Al-Hamed | 261 | Elected |
| Muhammad Youssef Al-Nisf | 258 | Elected |
| Ahmed Mohammed Al-Khatib | 251 | Elected |
| Muhammad Al-Bahr | 246 | Elected |
| Fahad Al-Sultan | 244 | Elected |
| Ahmed Al-Fahd | 240 | Elected |
| Abdul Latif Mohammed Thunayan Al-Ghanim | 239 | Elected |
| Dakheel Jassar | 238 | Elected |
| Abdul Latif Al-Shaya | 237 | Elected |
| Youssef Saleh Al-Humaidhi | 235 | Elected |
| Nisf Youssef Al-Nisf | 234 | Elected |
| Badr Sheikh Youssef | 230 | Elected |
| Sabeeh Al-Barrak Al-Sabeeh | 226 | Elected |
| Abdul Latif Al-Nisf | 218 | Elected |
| Marzouq Al-Abdulwahab | 214 | Elected |
| Ali Abdul Rahman Al-Bahr | 210 | Elected |
| Salem Al-Qattan | 208 | Elected |
| Yousef Ibrahim Al-Ghanim | 208 | Elected |
| Abdul Razzaq Khaled Al-Zaid Al-Khaled | 204 | Elected |
| Khaled Al-Kharafi | 201 | Elected |
| Barak Abdul Mohsen Al-Ajeel | 199 | Elected |
| Fahd Al-Rasheed | 188 | Elected |
| Suleiman Jalifa Al-Shaheen | 185 | Elected |
| Youssef Abdul Wahab Al-Adsani | 182 | Elected |
| Abdullah Abdul Latif Al-Othman | 181 | Elected |
| Mahmoud Issa Al-Asfour | 174 | Elected |
| Muhammad Mulla Hussein | 171 | Elected |
| Abdulaziz Al-Rashed | 170 | Elected |
| Abdul Razzaq Hamad Al-Khaled | 167 | Elected |
| Ali Al-Jassar | 167 | Elected |
| Abdullah Al-Dakhil | 167 | Elected |
| Abdulaziz Al-Fawzan | 165 | Elected |
| Abdullah Al-Shaya | 164 | Elected |
| Hamoud Al-Mudhaf | 159 | Elected |
| Ahmed Al-Fawzan | 159 | Elected |
| Abdullah Mishari Abdullah Al-Roudhan | 152 | Elected |
| Marzouq Khaled Youssef Al-Ghunaim | 151 | Elected |
| Total | | |
| Source: Al Qabas ||||

## Aftermath

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. The sheikh appointed members to a new Supreme Council the following year and in 1961 elections to a constitutional convention were held.