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1978 Cypriot presidential election

Field	Value
country	Cyprus
election_date	February 1978
previous_election	1977 Cypriot presidential election
previous_year	1977
next_election	1983 Cypriot presidential election
next_year	1983
type	presidential
candidate1	Spyros Kyprianou
image1	Spyros Kyprianou UN (cropped).jpg
popular_vote1	Unopposed
title	President
before_election	Spyros Kyprianou
after_election	Spyros Kyprianou

Presidential elections were due to be held in Cyprus in February 1978. However, after Vassos Lyssarides of the Movement for Social Democracy announced on 8 January that he would not stand as a candidate, incumbent president Spyros Kyprianou (who had held office since the death of Makarios III in August 1977, and was elected in a walkover in the election to fill the balance of Makarios' term in September 1977)

References

"News in Brief" ''The Times'', 9 January 1978, p5, Issue 60205
was left as the only remaining candidate. Kyprianou officially became president on 26 January."News in Brief", ''The Times'', 27 January 1978, p7, Issue 60221

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