{"id":4460,"date":"2021-01-14T18:32:17","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=4460"},"modified":"2021-01-14T18:32:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T18:32:17","slug":"uganda-decides-where-vote-will-be-won-and-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2021\/01\/14\/uganda-decides-where-vote-will-be-won-and-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda Decides &#8211; Where Vote Will Be Won and Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/#facebook\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202101140075.html\">https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202101140075.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">18.1 million registered voters are expected to file at 34,684 polling stations across the country today to cast their ballot and pick a new president and 528 Members of Parliament. The voting was set to begin at 7am and end at 4pm, according to the EC. out of all the voters, one in every four voters in Uganda is from Buganda, which is Uganda&#8217;s most populous region. The region officially divided into central north and central south, together with the capital Kampala account for 5.6 million voters. Western Uganda now has 4.7 million voters. When the two are put together, Buganda and western Uganda contribute six out of every 10 voters in the country while Karamoja, with its nine districts, has the least number of voters at about 349,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Voting patterns in Buganda are likely to be influenced by multiple factors. A key one being higher concentration of an educated population, fishing communities aggrieved by military crackdown on Lake Victoria and a cue by the powerful kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other regions as indicated in the national voters register and their corresponding voter numbers are West Nile (1.2 million), northern Uganda (1.7 million), Kiira or Busoga (1.8 million) and Elgon (1.8 million). The eastern region (Teso), the birthplace of Forum for Democratic Change party flag bearer Patrick Oboi Amuriat, has only 888,641, which is the second lowest countrywide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An analysis of the EC data suggests no presidential candidate is likely to secure the constitutional minimum threshold of 50-percent-plus-1 vote to win the election in the first round without snapping up a significant margin in either central or western Uganda. A winning candidate would be required to sweep majority votes in Kiira, northern, West Nile and eastern alongside picking some numbers in western and central Uganda to win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202101140075.html 18.1 million registered voters are expected to file at 34,684 polling stations across the country today to cast their ballot and pick a new president and 528 Members of Parliament. The voting was set to begin at 7am and end at 4pm, according to the EC. out of all the voters, one in every four voters in Uganda is&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2021\/01\/14\/uganda-decides-where-vote-will-be-won-and-lost\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4461,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4460\/revisions\/4461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}