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Total number of voters Uganda elections 2021
Number of Voters: 18,103,603
Number of Polling Stations:34,684
Districts with highest populations
Kampala 1,280,409
Wakiso 1,154,857
Kasese 384,058
Mukono 355,275
Ntungamo 268,541
Tororo 268,434
Luwero 257,115
Kamuli 236,917
Buikwe 235,640
Isingiro 233,099
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There are 18,103,603 voters and 34,684 polling satations that will participate in the January 14, 2021 Uganda Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the Electoral Commission has confirmed. This voter number is up by 3 million from the last election in 2016.
The districts with the highest voter population remain in central Uganda – that is Kampala and Wakiso at 1 million plus, Mukono at over 300,000 and Luwero over 250,000.
Tororo, Kasese, Ntungamo, Kamuli and Buikwe are also in the top 10.
Uganda goes into elections starting tomorrow with elections of councillors, then MPS and President on January 14, to be followed by polls at various levels, including the army.
The 2016 elections had 15,277,198 registered voters, and ended with a turnout of 67.61%.
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2016 RESULTS
Candidates |
Party |
Votes |
% |
| Abed Bwanika | PDP | 89,005 | 0.90% |
| Amama Mbabazi | Independent | 136,519 | 1.39% |
| Baryamureeba Venansius | Independent | 52,798 | 0.54% |
| Benon Buta Biraaro | FPU | 25,600 | 0.26% |
| Kizza Besigye Kifefe | FDC | 3,508,687 | 35.61% |
| Mabirizi Joseph | Independent | 24,498 | 0.25% |
| Maureen Faith Kyalya Waluube | Independent | 42,833 | 0.43% |
| Yoweri Kaguta Museveni | NRM | 5,971,872 | 60.62% |
| Valid Votes | 9,851,812 | ||
| Invalid Votes | 477,319 | 4.62% | |
| Total Votes Cast | 10,329,131 | 67.6 |
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Uganda 
Election DATES 2021
Jan 11,2021 Councillors older persons
Jan 11,2021 Councillors PWDs
Jan 11,2021 Youth Reps
Jan 12,2021 Councillors older persons
Jan 12,2021 Councillors PWDs
Jan 12,2021 Councillors Youth
Jan 14,2021 Elections of President and MPs
Jan 17-18,2021 National Conference Older persons
Jan 17-18,2021 National Conference PWDs
Jan 17-18,2021 National Conference Workers
Jan 20,2021 Mayors, District Chairpersons
Jan 21-22,2021 National Conference Female Youth
Jan 25,2021 Municipality & City Divisions chairs
Jan 27,2021 Councillors older persons District
Jan 27,2021 Councillors PWDs District
Jan 27,2021 Councillors Youth District
Jan 27,2021 Worker Reps to District LG Councils
Jan 29,2021 Election of UPDF MPs
Jan 13 & Feb 1,2021 Regional Conferences Youth MPs
Feb 3,2021 Sub-county/town/municipal Division chairs
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UGANDA Voter Count by District 2021 by The Independent Magazine on Scribd
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UGANDA Voter Count by Polling Stations 2021 by jadwongscribd on Scribd
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Election offences and penalties
Voting on behalf of another person (living or dead) 
Prison 5 years
Preventing a person from voting Fine sh100,000
Voting more than once is an offence and on conviction Fine sh500,000
Refusing to have one’s fingers to be inspected Fine sh100,000
Election official wrongly counting vote Fine sh500,000
Election Officials should note the following:
When an Election Officer, an Agent or Observer, at any polling station, assists any voter with a disability, he/she commits an offence.
Failure by the Presiding Officer to submit voting results is an offence and the offender is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 100,000/= (One hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding one year or both.
Preventing a person from voting is an offence and anyone who commits the offence of obstruction is liable to a fine of 200,000/= (Two hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment for two years.
Any Election Officer who knowingly counts a ballot paper in favor of the candidate for whom it was not cast, commits an offence. On conviction a person is liable to a fine not exceeding 500,000/= (Five hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding five years or both.
Offences by stakeholders
Pretending to have a disability is an offence and any person who commits
this offence is liable to a fine not exceeding l00,000/= (One hundred
thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding two years or both.
Assisting a voter without authority is an offence and the offender will
on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 200,000/= (Two hundred
thousand shillings) or two years imprisonment or both.
Voting more than once is an offence and on conviction a person is liable
to a fine not exceeding 500,000/= (Five hundred thousand shillings) or to
imprisonment not exceeding five years or both.
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Refusing to have one’s fingers to be inspected is an offence and the offender
is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding 200,000/ (Two hundred thousand shillings) or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding two years or both.
Voting on behalf of another person (living or dead) is an offence and on
conviction one is liable to imprisonment of five years (without option of a
fine).
Selling alcohol within four hundred metres of any polling station is an
offence and any person who commits this offence is liable on conviction
to a fine not exceeding 200,000/= (Two hundred thousand shillings) or
imprisonment not exceeding twelve months or both.
Any person who arms himself or herself during any part of polling day
with any arms or ammunition without lawful authority commits an offence
and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding 200,000/= (Two
hundred thousand shillings) or imprisonment not exceeding two years or
both.
Preventing a person from voting is an offence and anyone who commits
the offence of obstruction is liable to a fine of 200,000/= (Two hundred
thousand shillings) or imprisonment for two years.
VOTER EDUCATION HANDBOOK (click HERE to read online)
The PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ACT, 2005 (click HERE to read online)
PRESIDENTS HISTORY UGANDA (SOURCE WIKIPEDIA)| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political party | Prime minister(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| 1 |  |
Edward Mutesa (1924–1969) |
1963 | 9 October 1963 | 2 March 1966 (deposed.) |
2 years, 144 days | Kabaka Yekka | Obote |
| 2 |  |
Milton Obote (1925–2005) |
— | 2 March 1966 | 15 April 1966 | 44 days | Uganda People’s Congress | Himself |
| 15 April 1966 | 25 January 1971 (deposed.) |
4 years, 285 days | Position abolished | |||||
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Military | Prime minister(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 3 |  |
Idi Amin (1925–2003) |
25 January 1971 | 11 April 1979 (deposed.) |
8 years, 76 days | Ugandan Armed Forces | Position abolished |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political party | Prime minister(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| 4 |  |
Yusuf Lule (1912–1985) |
— | 13 April 1979 | 20 June 1979 (deposed.) |
68 days | Independent (UNLF) |
Position abolished |
| 5 | |
Godfrey Binaisa (1920–2010) |
— | 20 June 1979 | 12 May 1980 (deposed.) |
327 days | Uganda People’s Congress (UNLF) |
|
| 6 | |
Paulo Muwanga (1921–1991) |
— | 12 May 1980 | 22 May 1980 (resigned.) |
10 days | Uganda People’s Congress (UNLF) |
|
| — | Presidential Commission | — | 22 May 1980 | 15 December 1980 | 207 days | — | ||
| (2) | |
Milton Obote (1925–2005) |
1980 | 17 December 1980 | 27 July 1985 (deposed.) |
4 years, 222 days | Uganda People’s Congress | Allimadi |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Military | Prime minister(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 7 | |
General Bazilio Olara-Okello (1929–1990) |
27 July 1985 | 29 July 1985 (resigned.) |
2 days | Ugandan Armed Forces | Position vacant |
| 8 | |
General Tito Okello (1914–1996) |
29 July 1985 | 26 January 1986 (deposed.) |
181 days | Ugandan Armed Forces | Muwanga Waligo |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Elected | Term of office | Political party | Prime minister(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | ||||||
| 9 |  |
Yoweri Museveni (1944–) |
1996 2001 2006 2011 2016 |
26 January 1986 | Incumbent | 34 years, 341 days | National Resistance Movement | Kisekka Adyebo Musoke Nsibambi Mbabazi Rugunda |
| No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Political party | Head(s) of state | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
| 1 | |
Milton Obote (1925–2005) |
9 October 1962 | 15 April 1966 | 3 years, 188 days | Uganda People’s Congress | Elizabeth II Mutesa Himself |
| Post abolished (15 April 1966 – 18 December 1980) | |||||||
| 2 | |
Otema Allimadi (1929–2001) |
18 December 1980 | 27 July 1985 (deposed.) |
4 years, 221 days | Uganda People’s Congress | Obote |
| 3 | |
Paulo Muwanga (1921–1991) |
1 August 1985 | 25 August 1985 | 24 days | Independent | Okello |
| 4 | |
Abraham Waligo (1928–2000) |
25 August 1985 | 26 January 1986 (deposed.) |
154 days | Independent | Okello |
| 5 | |
Samson Kisekka (1912–1999) |
30 January 1986 | 22 January 1991 | 4 years, 357 days | National Resistance Movement | Museveni |
| 6 | |
George Cosmas Adyebo (1947–2000) |
22 January 1991 | 18 November 1994 | 3 years, 300 days | National Resistance Movement | Museveni |
| 7 | |
Kintu Musoke (1938–) |
18 November 1994 | 5 April 1999 | 4 years, 138 days | National Resistance Movement | Museveni |
| 8 |  |
Apolo Nsibambi (1940–2019) |
5 April 1999 | 24 May 2011 | 12 years, 49 days | National Resistance Movement | Museveni |
| 9 |  |
Amama Mbabazi (1949–) |
24 May 2011 | 18 September 2014 | 3 years, 117 days | National Resistance Movement | Museveni |
| 10 |  |
Ruhakana Rugunda (1947–) |
18 September 2014 | Incumbent | 6 years, 109 days | National Resistance Movement | Museveni |
