| Country: | Cyprus |
| Election Date: | February 1978 |
| Previous Election: | 1973 Cypriot presidential election |
| Previous Year: | 1973 |
| Next Election: | 1983 Cypriot presidential election |
| Next Year: | 1983 |
| Type: | presidential |
| Candidate1: | Spyros Kyprianou |
| Image1: | Spyros Kyprianou UN (cropped).jpg |
| Popular Vote1: | Unopposed |
| President | |
| Before Election: | Spyros Kyprianou (acting) |
| After Election: | Spyros Kyprianou |
Presidential elections were due to be held in Cyprus in February 1978.[1] However, after Vassos Lyssarides of the Movement for Social Democracy announced on 8 January that he would not stand as a candidate, acting President Spyros Kyprianou (who had held office since the death of Makarios III in August 1977) was left as the only remaining candidate.[1] Kyprianou officially became President on 26 January.[2]