# Electoral Commission declares Museveni winner with 58.38 percent after internet shutdown Date: 2021 ## The fact On 16 January 2021 Uganda’s Electoral Commission declared [Yoweri Museveni](/people/yoweri-museveni) winner of the 14 January presidential election with 6,042,898 votes (58.38 percent). Kyagulanyi was recorded at 3,631,437 (35.08 percent). The poll followed a nationwide internet shutdown. ## Context He ran. The Commission tabulated. The US later called the process neither free nor fair. [Antony Blinken](/people/sec-antony-blinken) is the counterpart on the 16 April 2021 visa-restriction statement. Kyagulanyi is unresolved. 14 January poll; 16 January declaration; 16 April Blinken statement. Stored as one 2021 election Fact. Keep Electoral Commission declares Museveni winner with 58.38 percent after internet shutdown on 2021-01-16 separate from neighbouring Museveni instruments. The president of Uganda is head of state, head of government, and commander-in-chief of the UPDF under Article 98. He assents to bills Parliament has passed and appoints the Chief of Defence Forces. He does not write OHCHR briefing notes, Electoral Commission gazette tallies, ULII consolidations, or US visa-restriction lists. ## Evidence and sources Electoral Commission of Uganda carries the official instrument or communique. The New York Times records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is electoral integrity: a completed 58.38 percent certification after shutdown and campaign violence. ## What is established and what is not Established: The Commission declared 6,042,898 votes (58.38 percent) on 16 January 2021 after the 14 January poll. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. The Commission tabulated. Observers who were blocked did not convert 58.38 percent into a competitive contest.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Electoral Commission declares Museveni winner with 58.38 percent after internet shutdown, not a later speech about Electoral Commission declares Museveni winner with 58.38 percent after internet shutdown. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Electoral Commission declares Museveni winner with 58.38 percent after internet shutdown on 2021-01-16 is not a licence to treat every later Electoral Commission of Uganda communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Electoral Commission declares Museveni winner with 58.38 percent after internet shutdown into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He ran and was certified. The Commission tabulated. Observers who were blocked did not convert 58.38 percent into a competitive contest. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Yoweri Museveni: https://factrail.ai/people/yoweri-museveni ## Drivers - Museveni incumbency and civic squeeze: https://factrail.ai/drivers/museveni-incumbency-and-civic-squeeze - Electoral Integrity and Competitiveness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/electoral-integrity-and-competitiveness ## Sources - https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/16/world/africa/uganda-election-results.html - https://www.ec.or.ug/news/publishing-final-results-presidential-elections-2021 ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ug-election-2021