Parliamentary elections in Uganda 2011

The parliamentary election in Uganda 2011 took place on February 18, 2011 in the East African state of Uganda at the same time as the presidential election. The National Resistance Movement party of President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni , who was re-elected in the presidential election , also won the parliamentary election with a clear majority.

Special features of the electoral system in Uganda

Of the 375 seats in the Ugandan Parliament , only 237 seats were directly and generally elected in the country's constituencies (called “constituency seats” in the table below) and 112 seats were determined by direct election by representatives of women in the Ugandan districts (below: “Women's seats " called). Finally, 25 seats are reserved for specific groups who determine these seats within their group (hereinafter referred to as “group representatives”). The groups represented here are “The Youth”, “The Workers”, “The Disabled” with five seats each and “The Army” with ten seats. 13 of the group representatives were also members of the ruling party. Regarding the representatives of the army (official name: Uganda People's Defense Force) it should be noted that they developed from the guerrilla group National Resistance Army , when the political arm of the current ruling party began. Only two “representatives” came into parliament as independents.

Result

Elected directly			Elected indirectly
Political party	Constituency seats	Women's seats	Group representatives	Total seats
National Resistance Movement	164	86	13	263
Forum for Democratic Change	23	11	-	34
Democratic Party	11	1	-	12
Uganda People's Congress	7th	3	-	10
Conservative party	1	-	-	1
Justice Forum	1	-	-	1
Independent	30th	11	2	43
Uganda People's Defense Force			10	10
Not occupied	1			1
Total (voter turnout 72%)	238	112	25th	375
Source: Electoral Commission of Uganda (PDF file; 79 kB), African Elections Database (PDF file; 61 kB)

Democratic standards

Both elections were accompanied by observers from the European Union who said the elections were marked by "avoidable administrative and logistical errors which resulted in an unacceptable number of Ugandans being deprived of their voting rights." The East African Community and other regional African ones Organizations said that the elections met the minimum international standards for free elections. In several places, ballot boxes were too late or too small for people to cast their votes before polling stations closed. Other ballot boxes were also unsealed, which made voting fraud easy, and a number of names were missing from the electoral roll. The prestigious Electoral Institute of Southern Africa also had a long list of criticisms of the election, but concluded that it was nonetheless "largely" in accordance with Ugandan laws and international principles.

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1. ↑ http://africanelections.tripod.com/ug2011parliamentary.pdf accessed on October 7, 2011
2. ↑ http://www.eueom.eu/files/pressreleases/english/press_release_preliminarystatement_uganda_20_february_en.pdf ("However, he said the electoral process was marred by avoidable administrative and logistical failures which led to an unacceptable number of Ugandan citizens being disenfranchised." ) accessed on March 19, 2011
3. ↑ http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-20/museveni-extends-25-year-rule-in-uganda-election-opponents-reject-result.html accessed on March 19, 2011
4. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/politik/afrika/artikel/1/grosser-andrang-und-grosse-probleme/ accessed on March 19, 2011
5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved March 19, 2011