{"id":56862,"date":"2026-01-16T11:14:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-election-museveni-takes-early-lead-with-76-bobi-wine-trails-at-20\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T11:14:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T11:14:46","slug":"uganda-election-museveni-takes-early-lead-with-76-bobi-wine-trails-at-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-election-museveni-takes-early-lead-with-76-bobi-wine-trails-at-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda election: Museveni takes early lead with 76%, Bobi Wine trails at 20%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Provisional results announced on Friday morning showed Museveni, 81, ahead with 76% of the votes, based on results from 45% of polling stations. Opposition leader Bobi Wine, a pop star-turned-politician, was in second place with 19.76%, while the remaining votes were split among six other candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandans went to the polls on Thursday in a tightly contested national election, with Museveni seeking a seventh term in office. After casting his vote, Museveni told reporters he expected a decisive win, stating he anticipated around 80% of the vote \u201cif there\u2019s no cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Voting faced some delays in several areas, with ballot boxes arriving late and biometric machines, used to verify voters\u2019 identities, experiencing technical issues. Some polling stations reported waits of up to four hours.<\/p>\n<p>The National Unity Platform (NUP), led by Bobi Wine, said late on Thursday that security forces had surrounded his home in Kampala. Police have not officially confirmed this report. Wine\u2019s party noted that a similar situation occurred after the 2021 election, when he was confined to his home for several days.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda\u2019s electoral commission has indicated that the results are still provisional, with counting ongoing. Authorities have urged patience as final results are compiled and verified.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100707 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/g-tc3m6xyaavkrxf-e7659ad4-6cf73.jpg\" alt=\"President Museveni, who is eyeing a seventh term, told reporters on Thursday that he expected a decisive win, stating he anticipated around 80% of the vote \u2018if there\u2019s no cheating.\u2019\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100708 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/g-tegsixqaadrg5f-beb49fbb-bcba8.jpg\" alt=\"Provisional results announced on Friday morning showed opposition leader Bobi Wine, a pop star-turned-politician, in second place with 19.76%.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s President Yoweri Museveni has taken a strong lead in early results from Thursday\u2019s presidential election, the country\u2019s electoral commission said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000100706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100706,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/600348475dc0f.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/600348475dc0f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/600348475dc0f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/600348475dc0f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/600348475dc0f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/600348475dc0f.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56862"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56862"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}