Daily Monitor
Thursday January 14 2021
A man casts his ballot at a polling station in Kampala, Uganda on January 14, 2021. Yasuyoshi Chiba | AFP
Summary
The voting was set to begin at 7am and end at 4pm, according to the Electoral Commission (EC).
The central region together with the capital Kampala account for 5.6 million voters.
Five of the presidential candidates hail from the western region.
Museveni has, in each of the past five elections organised by his government since 1996, won in the west comfortably.
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Some 18.1 million registered voters are expected to file at 34,684 polling stations across the country today to cast their ballot and pick a new president and 528 Members of Parliament.
Daily Monitor
Thursday December 24 2020
NUP presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi with the party’s Mityana candidates Joyce Bagala and Francis Zaake on December 23, 2020. PHOTO | DAVID LUBOWA
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There are as many candidates running on Independent ticket for parliamentary and district chairperson seats as the combined number of party flag bearers, official records show.
Our analysis of the Electoral Commission data shows that half of the 2,667 parliamentary contestants are Independents, followed by the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party that has fielded 496 candidates while the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) has 281 flag bearers.
The National Unity Platform (NUP), Uganda’s youngest political party led by presidential candidate Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, has raised 242 contenders for parliamentary slots which, constitute half of candidates that the ruling party is sponsoring, fielded.