1980 Ugandan general election

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1980 Ugandan general election
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  1962 10 and 11 December 1980 1989  

126 of 156 seats of the National Assembly
64 seats needed for a majority
Registered4,898,117
Turnout4,174,308 (85.22%)
 First partySecond partyThird party
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Leader Milton Obote Paul Ssemogerere Yoweri Museveni
Party UPC DP UPM
Seats won75501
Popular vote1,963,6791,966,244171,785
Percentage47.07%47.13%4.12%

President before election

Presidential Commission

Elected President

Milton Obote
UPC

General elections were held in Uganda on 10 and 11 December 1980. [1] They followed the overthrow of Idi Amin the previous year and were the first since the pre-independence elections in 1962. The result was a victory for the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) of President Milton Obote, which won 75 of the 126 seats. Voter turnout was 85%. [2]

The UPC was the only party to contest all 126 seats, and its candidates were returned unopposed in seventeen constituencies. The opposition claimed that the UPC had only won through widespread fraud. Several opposition groups united as the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the leadership of Yoweri Museveni to start an armed uprising against Obote's government on 6 February 1981.

Results

PartyVotes%Seats+/–
Democratic Party 1,966,24447.1350+26
Uganda People's Congress 1,963,67947.0775+38
Uganda Patriotic Movement 171,7854.121New
Conservative Party 70,1811.680New
Total4,171,889100.00126+44
Valid votes4,171,88999.94
Invalid/blank votes2,4190.06
Total votes4,174,308100.00
Registered voters/turnout4,898,11785.22
Source: Nohlen et al.

References

  1. Uganda Inter-Parliamentary Union
  2. Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) Elections in Africa: A data handbook, p933 ISBN   0-19-829645-2