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General elections were held in Uganda on 14 January 2021 to elect the President and the Parliament. [1] [2] The Electoral Commission announced Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni, the incumbent ruling since 1986, as the winner with 59% of the vote, although the U.S. State Department qualified the electoral process as "fundamentally flawed" [3] and Africa Elections Watch said they observed ...
The president of Uganda is elected using the two-round system, with candidates needing to receive at least 50% of the vote to be elected in the first round.Chapter 142 of the Presidential Elections Act of 2000 stipulates that presidential candidates must be a citizen of Uganda by birth and be qualified to be an MP. [2]
The Uganda Electoral Commission (EC) provides national elections for a president and a legislature.The president is elected for a five-year term. The Parliament is composed of members directly elected to represent constituencies, and one woman representative for every district; as well representatives of special interest groups, including the army, youth, workers and persons with disabilities.
The head of state in Uganda is the President, who is elected by a popular vote to a five-year term. This is currently Yoweri Museveni, who is also the head of the armed forces. The previous presidential elections were in February 2011, and in the election of February 2016, Museveni was elected with 68 percent of the vote.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa [a] (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and military officer who is the ninth and current president of Uganda since 1986. As of 2025, he is the third-longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world (after Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo in Equatorial Guinea and Paul Biya in Cameroon).
11 January – Presidential spokesman Don Wanyama accuses Facebook of interfering in the election after several accounts linked to President Museveni's campaign were removed for inauthentic behavior. [3] 13 January – The United States cancels its observation of the elections, saying the voting will lack transparency and accountability. [4]
The President of Uganda was elected using the two-round system, [8] with candidates needing to receive at least 50% of the vote to be elected in the first round. Chapter 142 of the Presidential Elections Act of 2000 of Uganda stipulates that presidential candidates must be a citizen of Uganda by birth, between 35 and 75 years old and be qualified to be an MP. [9]
this has been the worst outbreak of violence during campaigning for Thursday's presidential election. Ugandan police clash with opposition as presidential poll nears Skip to main content