1872 Transvaal presidential election

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{{Infobox election

| country = South African Republic

| type = presidential

| election_date = 1872

| next_election = 1883 Transvaal presidential election

| next_year = 1883

| image1 = ThFBurgers CHM VA0897 (cropped).jpg

| nominee1 = Thomas François Burgers

| popular_vote1 = 2,964

| percentage1 = 88.42%

| image2 = 3x4.svg

| nominee2 = William Robinson

| popular_vote2 = 388

| percentage2 = 11.58%

| title = President

| before_election = Daniel Jacobus Erasmus
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| after_election = Thomas François Burgers

}}

Presidential elections were held in the South African Republic in 1872.John Noble (1896) Illustrated official handbook of the Cape and South Africa J.C. Juta & Co, p463 The result was a victory for Thomas François Burgers,Steven Debroey (1989) South Africa to the sources of apartheid who defeated the "Afrikanerised" Englishman William Robinson,Marq De Villiers (1988) White tribe dreaming: apartheid's bitter roots as witnessed by eight generations of an Afrikaner family Viking who had been supported by Paul Kruger.Jeremy Lawrence (2001) Buccaneer: a biography of Sir Joseph Benjamin Robinson, first Baronet Gryphon Press, p48 Burgers was sworn in as President on 27 June.Alan Patrick Cartwright (1973) Valley of gold Timmins, p25