LIVE: EC’s Byabakama releases first results

📌 Results from 8,310 polling stations (23% of total)

Museveni 1,536 205 votes 65.02%, Kyagulanyi 647,146

✳ Museveni 62.7%
✳ Kyagulanyi 29.34%

✳ Kalembe 0.51%
✳ Katumba 0.38%
✳ Mwesigye 0.30%
✳ Mayambala 0.22%

✳ Amuriat 4.11% – 212,605
✳ Muntu 0.66% – 32,339
✳ Kabuleta 0.51% – 25,378
✳ Mao 0.80% – 39,339
✳ Tumukunde 0.57%
✳ Kalembe 0.45%
✳ Katumba 0.36%
✳ Mwesigye 0.30%
✳Mayambala 0.19%

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Electorate Commission Chairman Justice Simon Byabakama has started releasing provisional Uganda election results in the early hours of Friday.

With less than 0.5% of votes cast in 330 polling stations, representing 1% of the total polling stations, Yoweri Museveni Turuhagurwa Kaguta polled 50,097 votes or 61.3%, followed by Kyagulanyi Ssentamu Robert with 22,802 votes or 27.9% of the valid votes.

Valid votes were 81,724 and invalid votes were 3,997 or 4.7% of the total votes so far released from the 330 polling stations.

The next batch of results will be released at 9 am on Friday.

NB: Next results update by the electoral commission is at 9pm, local time.

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