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1980 Ugandan general election

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Field	Value
election_name	1980 Ugandan general election
country	Uganda
type	parliamentary
previous_election	1962 Ugandan general election
previous_year	1962
election_date	10 and 11 December 1980
next_election	1989 Ugandan general election
next_year	1989
seats_for_election	126 of 156 seats of the National Assembly
majority_seats	64
registered	4,898,117
turnout	4,174,308 (85.22%)
image1	President John F. Kennedy with Prime Minister Milton Obote (cropped).jpg
leader1	Milton Obote
party1	Uganda People's Congress
seats1	75
popular_vote1	1,963,679
percentage1	47.07%
image2	Paul Kawanga Ssemogerere (cropped).jpg
leader2	Paul Ssemogerere
party2	Democratic Party (Uganda)
seats2	50
popular_vote2	1,966,244
percentage2	47.13%
image3	Museveni July 2012 Cropped.jpg
leader3	Yoweri Museveni
party3	UPM
colour3
seats3	1
popular_vote3	171,785
percentage3	4.12%
title	President
before_election	Presidential Commission
after_election	Milton Obote
after_party	UPC

General elections were held in Uganda on 10 and 11 December 1980. They followed the overthrow of Idi Amin the previous year and were the first since the pre-independence elections in 1962. The result was a victory for the Uganda People's Congress (UPC) of President Milton Obote, which won 75 of the 126 seats. Voter turnout was 85%.

The UPC was the only party to contest all 126 seats, and its candidates were returned unopposed in seventeen constituencies. The opposition claimed that the UPC had only won through widespread fraud. Several opposition groups united as the National Resistance Army (NRA) under the leadership of Yoweri Museveni to start an armed uprising against Obote's government on 6 February 1981.

Results

References

[http://www.ipu.org/parline-e/reports/arc/UGANDA_1980_E.PDF Uganda] Inter-Parliamentary Union
[[Dieter Nohlen]], Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', p933 {{ISBN. 0-19-829645-2

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