Tories as the main right wing party in the country, as they had done in British Columbia and Alberta, but the popularity of the Diefenbaker government persuaded many Social Credit supporters to abandon their party. This allowed the Tories to pick up not only Social Credit seats, but also proved decisive in many seats that featured a fractured vote between the PCs, Social Credit, Liberals, and CCF. Notably, the Tories swept all seventeen seats in Alberta, where they had previously held just three seats to Social Credit's thirteen (and Liberal one seat). The election proved to be the start of a long decline for the federal Social Credit Party. It would never seriously challenge the PCs dominance again in federal politics (even in the West), although the BC Social Credit Party governed that province for all but three years until 1991. National results Notes: "Previous" refers to standings at previous election, not to standings in the House of Commons at dissolution. * The party did not nominate candidates in the previous election. x - less than 0.005% of the popular vote Results by province xx - less than 0.05% of the popular vote See also List of Canadian federal general elections List of political parties in Canada 24th Canadian Parliament References Further reading External links The Elections of 1957 and 1958, by P.E. Bryden Electoral Results by Party, on Parliament of Canada site 1958 Federal Canadian federal election