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2001 Ugandan presidential election

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Field	Value
country	Uganda
type	presidential
previous_election	1996 Ugandan presidential election
previous_year	1996
next_election	2006 Ugandan general election
next_year	2006
election_date	12 March 2001
registered	10,775,836
turnout	70.31%
image1	Yoweri Museveni in 1997.jpeg
candidate1	Yoweri Museveni
party1	Independent politician
popular_vote1	5,088,470
percentage1	69.45%
image2	Kizza Besigye.png
candidate2	Kizza Besigye
party2	Independent politician
popular_vote2	2,029,190
percentage2	27.69%
map_image	2001 Uganda presidential election results by district.svg
map_caption	Results by district
Museveni:
Besigye:
title	President
before_election	Yoweri Museveni
before_party	Independent politician
after_election	Yoweri Museveni
after_party	Independent politician

Museveni:
Besigye:

Presidential elections were held in Uganda on 12 March 2001. The incumbent Yoweri Museveni received 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%.

Candidates

Yoweri Museveni was running for his second term in office in 2001. He took power in 1986 after winning a guerrilla war against President Tito Okello. Museveni's main rival was four-time rival Kizza Besigye, who was Museveni's personal physician and a military officer who broke ties with the NRM government in 2001.

Results

Post-election events

Besigye did not concede the race but instead requested a formal vote recount on the basis of voter fraud. Museveni also claimed that there was a "rigging" of the vote, albeit in Besigye's favour; he also remarked that he should have won 75% of the vote instead. The independent election watchdog Election Monitoring Group found voter fraud to be minimal. The same day after results were announced, a pipe bomb exploded in downtown Kampala, killing one woman; a similar explosion occurred on a minibus headed towards the capital, injuring three people. However, it was not immediately clear if the explosions were related to the presidential election. Shortly after being elected to a second term as president, Museveni pledged to step down before the next election but subsequently walked back on his promise.

References

[http://africanelections.tripod.com/ug.html Elections in Uganda] African Elections Database
Fisher, Ian. (15 March 2001). "Final Count Has Uganda President Winning 69% of Vote". [[The New York Times]].
Borzello, Anna. (14 March 2001). "Uganda's Museveni leads in 'rigged' elections". The Guardian.
(16 December 2006). "2001 elections: Supreme Court Judges ruling". Daily Monitor.
(17 February 2016). "Yoweri Museveni - Uganda's president profiled". BBC.

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