REPUBLIC OF UGANDA REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS BY THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION SUBMITTED TO PARLIAMENT THROUGH THE MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 12 (1) (0) OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION ACT NO. 3, 1997 AUGUST 2006 REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE CHAPTER ONE: BACKGROUND 1 1.1 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION (COMMISSION) 1 1.2 ORGANIZATION STRUCTURE OF THE COMMISSION 1 1.3 RE-INTRODUCTION OF MULTI-PARTY POLITICS 2 1.4 COMPOSITION OF ELECTION POSITIONS AT VARIOUS LEVELS 3 1.4.2 The Presidency 3 1.4.3 The National Parliament 3 1.4.4 Local Governments’ Councils 4 1.5 LEGAL FRAMEWORK 4 1.5.2 The Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 4 1.5.3 Working Relationship with Political Parties/Organizations 5 CHAPTER TWO: FINANCE AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION FOR THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS 7 2.2 FINANCE 7 2.2.1 Government Budgetary Support 7 2.2.2 Donor Budgetary Support 9 2.3 GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 11 2.3.1 HUMAN RESOURCES 11 2.3.1.1 Permanent Staff 11 2.3.1.2 Temporary Deployment 11 2.4 PROCUREMENT AND PRINTING OF ELECTION MATERIALS 12 2.4.1 Procurement of Goods and Services 12 2.4.2 Printing of Election Materials 13 2.5 PACKING AND DISPATCH OF POLLING MATERIALS 13 2.5.1 Packing 13 REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS 2.5.2 Dispatch of Polling Materials 13 2.6 TRANSPORT 13 2.7 SECURITY DURING THE ELECTION PERIOD 15 CHAPTER THREE: VOTER EDUCATION, TRAINING AND PUBLIC AWARENESS 16 3.1 VOTER EDUCATION AND PUBLIC AWARENESS 16 3.1.2 Methods of Dissemination 16 3.1.2 Expected Outputs 16 3.2 TRAINING OF ELECTION OFFICIALS AND OTHER 16 STAKEHOLDERS CHAPTER FOUR: PRE-NOMINATION ACTIVITIES FOR THE 20 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS 4.2 RE-ORGANISATION OF POLLING STATIONS 20 4.3 DEMARCATION OF PARLIAMENTARY CONSTITUENCIES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTORAL AREAS 22 4.3.1 Parliamentary Constituencies 22 4.3.2 Local Government Electoral Areas 22 4.4 REGISTRATION OF VOTERS 23 4.4.2 National Voters’ Register 23 4.4.3 Continuous Voter Registration 24 4.4.4 Update of the National Voters’ Register 24 4.5 DISPLAY OF THE NATIONAL VOTERS’ REGISTER 4.5.1 Display Activities 26 4.5.2 Duplicate Analysis 27 4.5.3 Issuance of Voters’ Cards 27 4.6 REGISTERS FOR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS 28 4.6.2 Register Types for Special Interest Groups in Parliament 28 4.6.3 Registers for Special Interest Groups at Local Government Council 28 Levels REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS CHAPTER FIVE: NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES AND CAMPAIGNS 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS 30 5.2 NOMINATION SCHEDULE 32 5.3 NOMINATION RETURNS 33 5.4 SPONSORSHIP OF CANDIDATES FOR NOMINATION BY POLITICAL PARTIES/ORGANISATIONS 34 5.5 NOMINATION OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 36 5.6 NOMINATION OF PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATES 38 5.7 REPRESENTATIVES OF SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs) 40 IN PARLIAMENT 5.8 NOMINATIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS COUNCILS 43 5.9 COMPLAINTS AND PETITIONS 43 5.9.1 Complaints and Petitions Arising out of Nomination of Candidates 43 5.9.2 Categories of Complaints/Petitions 44 5.9.3 Constitutional Cases/Civil Suits Filed 45 5.9.4 Status of Petitions/Cases and Suits 45 5.10 NATIONAL PRAYER WEEK 45 5.11 CAMPAIGNS AND MONITORING OF ELECTION ACTIVITIES 47 5.11.1 Campaigns 47 5.11.2 National Inter-Party Liaison Committee 48 5.11.3 Election Violence 48 CHAPTER SIX: POLLING DAY ACTIVITIES, TALLYING AND DECLARATION OF THE 2005/2006 ELECTION RESULTS 49 6.1 POLLING ACTIVITIES FOR DIRECTLY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES 50 6.2 INFORMATION AND RESOLUTION OF COMPLAINTS 51 6.3 COUNTING OF VOTES 52 6.4 TRANSMISSION AND TALLYING OF RESULTS 52 REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS 6.5 TALLYING AND DECLARATION OF RESULTS AT NATIONAL AND DISTRICT LEVELS 53 6.5.1 National Tally Centre at Mandela National Stadium, Namboole 53 6.6 DECLARATION OF ELECTION RESULTS 55 6.6.1 Presidential Elections Results 56 6.6.2 Directly Elected Members of Parliament and District Woman Representatives in Parliament 58 6.6.3 Special Interest Groups Election Results 58 6.6.4 Declaration of Results for Local Government Council Elections 64 6.7 VOTER TURNOUT DURING THE GENERAL ELECTIONS 65 2005/2006 CHAPTER SEVEN: ELECTION OBSERVERS 65 7.2 BRIEFING OF OBSERVERS 67 7.3 DEBRIEFING AND OBSERVERS REPORTS 67 7.3.1 Strengths 68 7.3.2 Areas for Improvement 68 CHAPTER EIGHT: POST GENERAL ELECTIONS ACTIVITIES 69 8.2 Publishing the Election Results in the Official Uganda Gazette 70 8.3 Swearing in of Elected Leaders 70 8.4 Post Election Petitions Filed in Courts of Law 71 8.5 Holding of By-Elections and Uncompleted Elections 72 8.6 Preliminary Preparations for Administrative Unit Councils Elections 72 8.7 Elections for Chairpersons and District Woman Representatives in the Newly Created Districts 73 8.8 Evaluation of the 2005/2006 Electoral Process 73 CHAPTER NINE: PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES OF THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS 73 REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS 9.1 PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES 74 CHAPTER TEN: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 76 10.1 CONCLUSIONS 77 10.2 RECOMMENDATIONS 77 REFERENCES 79 REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS, ACRONYMS AND SYMBOLS NRM National Resistance Movement UPC Uganda Peoples Congress PPOA Political Parties and Organizations Act UPDF Uganda Peoples Defence Forces UPIMAC Uganda Project Implementation and Management Centre NGO Non-Governmental Organizations T.O.T Training Of Trainers DEC Directly Elected Councillor WEC Women Elected Councillor FDC Forum for Democratic Change DP Democratic Party IND Independent AC Action Party DP Democratic Party JEEMA Justice Forum LDP Liberal Democratic Party MVMO Movement Volunteer Mobilizers Organisation NCD National Convention for Democracy NRP National Redemption Party PAP Progressive Alliance Party PWD Persons With Disabilities SIGs Special Interest Groups TR Transmission of Results EAC East African Community NOTU National Organisation of Trade Unions NUDIPU National Union of Disabled Persons of Uganda COFTU Confederation Of Free Trade Unions IEC Interim Electoral Commission ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network [ ] Reference Numbers NGOs Non Governmental Organisations CSOs Community Based Organisations REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS SIGs Special Interest Groups Commission Electoral Commission REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS LIST OF TABLES No. Description Page Table 1a: Government Funding for the 2005/2006 General Elections 8 Table 1b: Details of the 2005/2006 General Election Cash Releases (Ug. Shs.) 8 Table 2: Donor Funding in Cash (Ug. Shs.) 10 Table 3: Constituencies/Electoral Areas for Both 2001/02 and 2005/06 General 22 Elections Table 4: Nomination Dates for Various Political Offices - 2005/2006 31 Table 5: Summary Statistics on Nominated Candidates in 32 Constituencies/Electoral Areas Table 6a: Distribution of Nominated Candidates by Category of Election and 34 Political Party/Organisation Affiliation Table 6b: Distribution of Nominated SIGs Candidates by Category and Political 35 Party/Organisation Table 7: Nominated Candidates for the 2006 Presidential Elections 35 Table 8a: Nominated Candidates for Parliamentary Elections by Political 38 Party/Organisation or Independent Table 8b: Analysis of Candidates Nominated for Parliamentary Elections 38 Table 9: Female Candidates who Contested in Constituencies for Directly 39 Elected Members of Parliament. Table 10: Programmes for the Election of Representatives of Special Interest 40 Groups (SIGs) in Parliament for the 2005/2006 General Elections Table 11: Nomination of Candidates for Representatives of Special Interest 41 Groups Table 12a: Categories of Complaints/Petitions Received 43 Table 12b: The Status of the Complaints/Petitions 43 Table 13: Status of 2005/2006 General Elections Petitions/Cases and Civil Suits 44 Table 14a: Summary of the Presidential Election Results at Declaration on 25th 56 February, 2006 from 19,585 Polling Stations Table 14b: Summary of the Final Presidential Election Results from 19,755 56 REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS Polling Stations as Gazetted Table 15: Results for the Election of the Eastern Youth Representative in 58 Parliament Table 16: Results for the Election of the Western Youth Representative in 58 Parliament Table 17: Results for the Election of the Central Youth Representative in 59 Parliament Table 18: Results for the Election of the Northern Youth Representative in 59 Parliament Table 19: Results for the Election of the Female Youth Member of Parliament 60 Table 20a: Results for the Elections of the Army Representatives in Parliament 60 Table 20b: Results for the Elections of the Female Army Representatives in 60 Parliament. Table 21: Results for the Elections of PWDs Members of Parliament 61 Table 22a: Results for the Election of Member Representing Workers in 62 Parliament (Elected by COFTU) Table 22b: Results for the Election of Members Representing Workers in 62 Parliament (Elected by NOTU) Table 22c: Results for the Election of Female Member Representing Workers in 62 Parliament (Elected Jointly by NOTU and COFTU) Table 23: Details of Gazette Notices for Results of Local Government Council 63 Elections Table 24: Categories of Petitions filed in Courts of Law 70 Table 25: By-Elections and Residual Elections Held after the General Elections 71 LIST OF PLATES No. Description Page REPORT ON THE 2005/2006 GENERAL ELECTIONS Plate 1: Current Commission 2 Plate 2: A vehicle being Loaded with Election Materials in Readiness for 14 Transportation Plate 3: Press Conference in Progress at the Electoral Commission Headquarters 17 Plate 4: Processing of the National Voters’ Register at the Commission 26 Headquarters Plate 5: Nomination of the Female Presidential Candidate, 2005/2006 Elections 36 Plate. 6: Nomination of Independent Presidential Candidate, 2005/2006 Elections 37 Plate 7: Electoral Commission Staff Marching to Nakivubo Stadium on 7th 45 February, 2006 Plate 8: Property Destroyed by a Violent Crowd in Adjumani Town Council 48 Plate 9: Enthusiastic Voters in a Queue at a Polling Station 50 Plate 10: Vote Counting at a Polling Station 51 Plate.