| Election Name: | 1958 Alabama gubernatorial election |
| Country: | Alabama |
| Type: | presidential |
| Ongoing: | No |
| Previous Election: | 1954 Alabama gubernatorial election |
| Previous Year: | 1954 |
| Next Election: | 1962 Alabama gubernatorial election |
| Next Year: | 1962 |
| Election Date: | November 4, 1958 |
| Image1: | John Malcolm Patterson.jpg |
| Nominee1: | John M. Patterson |
| Party1: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote1: | 234,583 |
| Percentage1: | 88.22% |
| Nominee2: | William Longshore |
| Party2: | Republican Party (United States) |
| Popular Vote2: | 30,415 |
| Percentage2: | 11.44% |
| Governor | |
| Before Election: | Jim Folsom |
| Before Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| After Election: | John M. Patterson |
| After Party: | Democratic Party (United States) |
| Map Size: | 250px |
The 1958 Alabama gubernatorial election was held on November 4, 1958. Incumbent Democrat Jim Folsom was term limited and could not seek a second consecutive term.
At this time Alabama was a de facto one-party state. Because of this, every Democratic Party nominee was considered safe for election. The real contest for governor took place during the primary.
Popular incumbent Governor Jim Folsom, a racial moderate, was barred from running for reelection, as Governors could not succeed themselves at the time. Therefore, the Democratic primary was an open contest.
The two front-runners, Patterson and Wallace, held deeply different positions on racial segregation issues. While Patterson, known primarily as crime-fighting attorney general, ran on a very segregationist platform and accepted an official endorsement from the Ku Klux Klan, Wallace, a close ally of Folsom, refused to cooperate with the KKK and was endorsed by the NAACP.
After the election, aide Seymore Trammell recalled Wallace saying, "Seymore, you know why I lost that governor's race? ... I was outniggered by John Patterson. And I'll tell you here and now, I will never be outniggered again."
Primaries were held on June 3, 1958.
Because none of the candidates won a majority, a runoff was held on June 24, 1958, in order to determine which candidate received the nomination.
William Longshore, a former Republican Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives from the 9th district (lost, winning 34.12% votes) won the gubernatorial nomination unopposed.
After his defeat, George Wallace, who was a racial moderate, modified his public position in order to gain the white support necessary to win the next election.