General elections were held in Mexico on 6 July 1958.

[1] The presidential elections were won by Adolfo López Mateos, who received 90.4% of the vote.

In the Chamber of Deputies election, the Institutional Revolutionary Party won 153 of the 162 seats.

[2] These were the first Mexican presidential elections in which women were allowed to vote.

During a campaign stop at the municipality of Jalpa, the presidential candidate of the National Action Party, Luis H. Álvarez, was arrested and imprisoned for a couple of hours; according to Álvarez, the charge that was brought against him was "being a member of the opposition".