The following is a list of elections that occurred in the year 1959.

• 1959 Mauritanian parliamentary election
• 1959 Nigerian parliamentary election
• 1959 Senegalese parliamentary election
• 1959 Upper Volta Territorial Assembly election

• 1959 South Vietnamese legislative election
• 1959 Israeli legislative election
• 1959 Malayan general election
• 1959 Singaporean general election
• 1959 Soviet Union regional elections

• 1959 New South Wales state election
• 1959 South Australian state election
• 1959 Tasmanian state election
• 1959 Western Australian state election

• 1959 Fianna Fáil leadership election
• 1959 French municipal elections
• 1959 Gibraltar general election
• 1959 Irish presidential election
• 1959 Soviet Union regional elections

• 1959 Central African Republic parliamentary election
• 1959 Chadian parliamentary election
• 1959 Dahomeyan legislative election
• 1959 Dutch general election
• 1959 French Sudan parliamentary election
• 1959 Guatemalan parliamentary election
• June 1959 Icelandic parliamentary election
• October 1959 Icelandic parliamentary election
• 1959 Italian Somaliland parliamentary election
• 1959 Liberian general election
• 1959 Luxembourg general election
• 1959 Mauritian general election
• 1959 Moyen-Congo parliamentary election
• 1959 Norwegian local elections
• 1959 Philippine Senate election
• 1958–1959 Tanganyikan general election