Ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party presidential candidate, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is poised to extend his reign in power to 40 years after Electoral Commission (EC) chairman Simon Byabakama credited him 5,562,141 votes, representing 58.89% of the 9,445,184 valid votes.
The second last batch of provisional results from the Electoral Commission indicate that closest opposition challenger Robert Kyagulanyi aka Bobi Wine’s percentage vote count had slightly dropped from to 34.62 to 34.55%, cementing Mr Museveni’s lead as per Saturday at noon.
President Museveni’s percentage vote count increased slightly from 58.83% to 58.89% with less than 9% of the vote to count.
According to EC, votes from all major traditional opposition swing territories and urban locales have been accounted for in provisional results.
Results from the national tally centre, Kyambogo, Kampala clearly show that presidency through the January 14 poll is now a mission next to impossible for the other nine candidates lined against Mr Museveni.
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2021 Presidential election provisional results from 31,599/34,684 polling stations received so far (91.11%) released January 16, 12:10pm |
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| Presidential Candidate | Candidate’s Party | Cumulative vote tally | Percentage (%) |
| Amuriat Oboi Patrick | Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) | 310,753 | 3.29 |
| Kabuleta Kiiza Joseph | Independent | 42,172 | 0.45 |
| Kalembe Nancy Linda | Independent | 35,103 | 0.37 |
| Katumba John | Independent | 34,258 | 0.36 |
| Kyagulanyi S Robert aka Bobi Wine | National Unity Platform (NUP) | 3,263,309 | 34.55 |
| Nobert Mao | Democratic Party (DP) | 51,669 | 0.55 |
| Mayambala Willy | Independent | 12,884 | 0.14 |
| Mugisha Muntu G | Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) | 62,152 | 0.66 |
| Mwesigye Fred | Independent | 23,346 | 0.25 |
| Tumukunde Henry K | Independent | 47,397 | 0.50 |
| Museveni T Kaguta | National Resistance Movement (NRM) | 5,562,141 | 58.89 |
| Valid votes in | 9,445,184 | ||
| Invalid Votes | 356,665 | 3.64% of votes cast | |
| Spoilt votes | 27,592 | ||
| Number of votes | 9,801,849 | 54.14% of registered voters | |
| Total Number of registered voters | 18,103,603 | ||
Constitutionally, president elect should be declared within 48 hours from the time polls closed, Thursday 4pm.
*The stats carried in this story are accurate as per January 16, 2021 (12:30pm Local EAT) with the final batch of provisional results set to be released by the Electoral Commission on January 16, 2021 (3pm Local EAT)
-Daily Monitor