 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Registered | 13,954,129 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Presidential election | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 59.29% ( 9.9 pp) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
365 of the 375 seats in Parliament 183 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|---|
 Ugandaportal |
General elections were held in Uganda on 18 February 2011. Incumbent President Yoweri Museveni of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) was re-elected for a third time, having been in power since 1986. The NRM also won 263 of the 375 seats in Parliament.
Museveni, a former guerilla commander, had ruled Uganda for nearly 30 years at the time of the elections. Kizza Besigye and Museveni faced each other for the third time, having previously been allies; Besigye was defeated by Museveni in the 2001 and 2006 elections.
At the time of the elections, Uganda was facing a potential oil shock, which became a campaign issue. [1]
Eight candidates contested the presidential elections, [2] whilst a total of 1,713 candidates ran in the parliamentary elections; 1,270 for the constituency seats and 443 for the women's seats. [3] The NRM contested every constituency seat, putting forward a total of 364 candidates. The Forum for Democratic Change nominated 288, the Uganda People's Congress 135, the Democratic Party 120, the Uganda Federal Alliance 66, the People's Progressive Party 33, and the People's Development Party 18. [4]
European Union observers said the election was "marred by avoidable and logistical failures, which led to an unacceptable number of Ugandan citizens being disenfranchised." [1]
| Candidate | Party | Votes | % | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yoweri Museveni | National Resistance Movement | 5,428,369 | 68.38 | |
| Kizza Besigye | Forum for Democratic Change | 2,064,963 | 26.01 | |
| Norbert Mao | Democratic Party | 147,917 | 1.86 | |
| Olara Otunnu | Uganda People's Congress | 125,059 | 1.58 | |
| Beti Kamya | Uganda Federal Alliance | 52,782 | 0.66 | |
| Abed Bwanika | People's Development Party | 51,708 | 0.65 | |
| Jaberi Bidandi Ssali | People's Progressive Party | 34,688 | 0.44 | |
| Samuel Lubega | Independent | 32,726 | 0.41 | |
| Total | 7,938,212 | 100.00 | ||
| Valid votes | 7,938,212 | 95.96 | ||
| Invalid/blank votes | 334,548 | 4.04 | ||
| Total votes | 8,272,760 | 100.00 | ||
| Registered voters/turnout | 13,954,129 | 59.29 | ||
| Source: Electoral Commission | ||||
 | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Constituency | Women | Seats | |||||||||
| Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | Appointed | Total | +/– | ||||
| National Resistance Movement | 3,883,209 | 49.22 | 164 | 3,803,608 | 51.56 | 86 | 13 | 263 | +50 | |||
| Forum for Democratic Change | 1,070,109 | 13.56 | 23 | 1,242,218 | 16.84 | 11 | 0 | 34 | –3 | |||
| Democratic Party | 476,415 | 6.04 | 11 | 325,660 | 4.41 | 1 | 0 | 12 | +4 | |||
| Uganda People's Congress | 265,568 | 3.37 | 7 | 237,477 | 3.22 | 3 | 0 | 10 | +1 | |||
| Justice Forum | 50,120 | 0.64 | 1 | 10,796 | 0.15 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Conservative Party | 48,276 | 0.61 | 1 | 1,084 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Uganda Federal Alliance | 23,585 | 0.30 | 0 | 34,346 | 0.47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| People's Progressive Party | 15,692 | 0.20 | 0 | 26,320 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| Forum for Integrity in Leadership | 8,871 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| Social Democratic Party | 5,664 | 0.07 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| Popular People's Democracy | 3,399 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| People's Development Party | 2,526 | 0.03 | 0 | 1,853 | 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| Liberal Democratic Transparency | 2,035 | 0.03 | 0 | 3,997 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | |||
| Green Partisan Party | 297 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| Uganda Economic Party | 207 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | ||||||
| Independents | 2,034,250 | 25.78 | 30 | 1,689,389 | 22.90 | 11 | 2 | 43 | +3 | |||
| Uganda People's Defence Force | 10 | 10 | 0 | |||||||||
| Vacant | 1 | – | 1 | – | ||||||||
| Total | 7,890,223 | 100.00 | 238 | 7,376,748 | 100.00 | 112 | 25 | 375 | +56 | |||
| Source: Election Passport, UC | ||||||||||||
The four-party Inter-Party Cooperation chairman Kizza Besigye said before the results were announced that the opposition "categorically rejects the outcome of the elections." He later warned that Uganda was ripe for an Egypt-style revolt after Museveni's more than two decades in power. [5] However, the protesters failed to amass in large numbers because, as The Christian Science Monitor suggested, a failure to tally its own results through its own SMS system was disrupted by the government, who also arrested hundreds of opposition field agents. They also suggested that Besigye did not believe his own claim of sparking a revolution. After losing out twice to Museveni – whose personal physician and loyal ally he once was – this third attempt seems to have shattered him. [6]
The politics of Uganda occurs in an authoritarian context. Since assuming office in 1986 at the end of the Ugandan civil war, Yoweri Museveni has ruled Uganda as an autocrat. Political parties were banned from 1986 to 2006 in the wake of the 2005 Ugandan multi-party referendum which was won by pro-democracy forces. Since 2006, Museveni has used legal means, patronage, and violence to maintain power.
Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa is a Ugandan politician and military officer who is the ninth and current president of Uganda since 1986. As of 2024, he is the third-longest consecutively serving current non-royal national leader in the world. His government is considered autocratic.
The National Resistance Movement has been the ruling party in Uganda since 1986.
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 Forum for Democratic Change, founded on 16 December 2004, is the main opposition party in Uganda. The FDC was founded as an umbrella body called Reform Agenda, mostly for disenchanted former members and followers of President Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Movement (NRM). Party president Kizza Besigye, formerly a close ally of Museveni, was a candidate in 2001, 2006, 2011 and 2016 presidential elections. In November 2012, Mugisha Muntu was elected as President of the FDC until November 2017 when he was defeated by Patrick Oboi Amuriat the current party President until 2022.
Warren Kizza Besigye Kifefe, known as Colonel Dr. Kizza Besigye, is a Ugandan physician, politician, and former military officer of the Uganda People's Defence Force. He served as the president of the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) political party and was an unsuccessful candidate in Uganda's 2001, 2006, 2011, and 2016 presidential elections, losing all of them to the incumbent, Yoweri Museveni, who has been president of Uganda since 26 January 1986. The results of the 2006 elections were contested in court, and the court found massive rigging and disenfranchisement. Besigye allowed an early internal FDC election for a successor president, which took place on 24 November 2012.
General elections were held in Uganda on 23 February 2006. They were the first multi-party elections since President Yoweri Museveni took over power in 1986, and followed a referendum the previous year on scrapping the ban on party politics.
Abed Bwanika is a Ugandan veterinarian, politician, and pastor. He is the President of the People's Development Party, an opposition political party in Uganda and his currently a Member of Parliament for Kimanya-Kabonera constituency under the NUP, the youngest political party led Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu.
Norbert Mao is a Ugandan political activist and lawyer. He has been president of the Democratic Party since 2010, three time presidential candidate and served as the Local Council 5 chairman for Gulu District. He is the current minister for Justice and Constitutional Affairs in the Ugandan government, an office he assumed on 21 July 2022. He was appointed to this position by Yoweri Museveni, the president of the Republic of Uganda. The appointment drew immense criticism from the Democratic Party, an opposition party he is currently serving as president. It was seen as a move by President Museveni to tame the Party and clip its wings to criticize his government.
Eugene Wamalwa is a Kenyan politician who was the former Cabinet Secretary of the Ministry of Defense. Prior to that before 29 September 2021, he was Cabinet Secretary of Devolution. He is also a former minister for Justice. He also served as Minister for Water and Irrigation. He belongs to the Azimio la Umoja - One Kenya Coalition Party, and was elected to represent the Saboti Constituency in the National Assembly of Kenya during the 2007 Kenyan parliamentary election, and served for one term of five years.
Presidential elections were held in Uganda on 12 March 2001. The incumbent Yoweri Museveni won 69% of the vote and was elected to a second term. All candidates were independents, as political parties were banned at the time. Voter turnout was 70.3%.
Beti Olive Namisango Kamya-Turomwe, also known as Betty Kamya and Beti Kamya, is a businesswoman and politician in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community. She is the Inspector General of Government in Uganda, since 16 July 2021.
The Walk to Work protests occurred in Uganda in April 2011, as a reaction to the high cost of living. The protests took place following presidential elections in February 2011, and involved several defeated opposition candidates. The protests were suppressed by the government of Yoweri Museveni, resulting in five deaths.
General elections were held in Uganda on 18 February 2016 to elect the President and Parliament. Polling day was declared a national holiday.
The People Power, Our Power movement is a resistance pressure group in Uganda. It is led by Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, also known as Bobi Wine, who is the MP for Kyadondo East constituency. The movement seeks to unite Ugandans on issues such as ending human rights abuse, corruption and redefining the rule of law, with a focus on young Ugandans. The movement was primarily sparked by civil unrest with Yoweri Museveni's extended presidency, after he announced plans to extend his third-longest tenure in Africa by seeking re-election in 2021.
The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT), founded on 19 March 2019, is a political party in Uganda.
Patrick Oboi Amuriat is a Ugandan engineer, politician and a founding member of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party and ran on its platform for the president of Uganda in the January 2021 presidential election. He served in the Ugandan parliament from 2001 to 2016 and chaired several committees and was a member of Parliamentary Advocacy Forum, PAFO.
Barnabas Tinkasimire is a Ugandan politician and a Member of the Ugandan Parliament elected from the Buyaga West constituency, Kagadi District on the ticket of National Resistance Movement (NRM). He was the Chairman for the Bunyoro Parliamentary Caucus. Tinkasimire was one of the 29 MPs labeled “rebel MPs) by his party NRM for their opposition against removal of age limit for presidential candidates which would allow President Yoweri Museveni to remain in office beyond 75 years age limit.
