# 1858–59 Cape Colony parliamentary election

The 1858–59 Cape Colony parliamentary election was conducted between September 1858 and early March 1859. This was the second election for the Cape parliament, which had been established in 1854.
Despite the election, the parliament was weak and executive power remained firmly in the hands of the Governor, Sir George Grey, who was appointed from London. Rawson W. Rawson continued as the colony's Colonial Secretary. As Colonial Secretary, Rawson could speak in both the Assembly and Council, but held no voting rights.
In the Eastern Province, the assembly elections saw little excitement, with some constituencies had difficulty even finding willing candidates. In the Assembly constituency of Albany, which returned 2 members of the Assembly, only 4 people voted. Andries Stockenström and Robert Godlonton, both representatives for the Eastern Division in the council, chose not to seek re-election.

## Constituencies

For elections to the House of Assembly, the Cape was divided into 22 electoral divisions, returning a total of 46 members. The electoral division boundaries corresponded with the existing Cape Colony fiscal divisions. The only exceptions to this were for Albany, and the urban areas of Cape Town-Green Point and Grahamstown, (which were not included in the Cape electoral division), which had their own electoral divisions.

## Members elected
### Assembly

Party :
| Albany | Henry Calderwood |
| Albany | SLATER |
| Albert | KRUGER |
| Albert | HOPLEY |
| Beaufort West | John Charles Molteno |
| Beaufort West | Dr James Christie |
| Caledon | |
| Caledon | |
| Cape Town | J. D. Thompson |
| Cape Town | M. J. Louw |
| Cape Town | Saul Solomon |
| Cape Town | Petrus Kotzé |
| Cape Division | BLAKE |
| Cape Division | Johan Conrad Silberbauer |
| Clanwilliam | |
| Clanwilliam | |
| Colesburg | |
| Colesburg | |
| Cradock | Charles Scanlen |
| Cradock | CALDECOTT |
| Fort Beaufort | |
| Fort Beaufort | |
| George | PRINCE |
| George | WALTERS |
| Graaff-Reinet | MEINTJES |
| Graaff-Reinet | Jeremias Ziervogel |
| Grahams Town | |
| Grahams Town | |
| Malmesbury | LEEDOLFF |
| Malmesbury | DUCKITT |
| Paarl | J. J. Proctor |
| Paarl | HAUPT |
| Port Elizabeth | John Ross Philip |
| Port Elizabeth | |
| Somerset | BOWKER |
| Somerset | KRUGER |
| Stellenbosch | Christoffel Brand |
| Stellenbosch | BOSMAN |
| Swellendam | John Fairbairn |
| Swellendam | WHITE |
| Worcester | MINNIK |
| Worcester | LE SUEUR |
| Uitenhage | BILLINGHAM |
| Uitenhage | KROG |
| Victoria East | |
| Victoria East | |

### Council

Party :
| Eastern Province | Joseph Cawood |
| Eastern Province | Charles Pote |
| Eastern Province | John Paterson |
| Eastern Province | William Southey |
| Eastern Province | Julius Mosenthal |
| Eastern Province | Ludwig Johan Frederick von Maltitz |
| Eastern Province | James Henry Greathead |
| Western Province | Joseph Barry |
| Western Province | John Stein |
| Western Province | Petrus Emanuel Roubaix |
| Western Province | Jan de Wet, LLD |
| Western Province | Hercules Crosse Jarvis |
| Western Province | Johan Hendrik Wicht |
| Western Province | Dirk Gysbert van Breda |
| Western Province | Francis William Reitz |