NRM Beats NUP in Kayunga LCV race.
NRM candidate won with 31,830 votes out of the 65,332 total votes cast on Thursday and Nakwedde Harriet the main rival from the NUP managed to gain 31,308 votes making her the second in the race.
Kimera Abdul 
On Friday morning, the returning officer for Kayunga electoral district Jennifer Kyobutungi declared Muwonge Andrew the NRM candidate the winner of Kayunga LC5 by-election.
Muwonge was in this highly contested vote with five other candidates but the main clash was with the NUP counterpart Nakwedde Harriet.
Mrs. Kyobutungi announced that Muwonge Andrew the NRM candidate won with 31,830 votes out of the 65,332 total votes cast on Thursday and Nakwedde Harriet the main rival from the NUP managed to gain 31,308 votes making her the second in the race.
Other candidates in the race included Kamoga Jamiru the independent candidate who gained 279 votes, Woddombo Anthony the DP got 158 votes, Nyanzi Majid who was also the third runner up with 1,287 votes and Musisi Boniface Bandikubi with 470 votes.
According to the final results electoral commission form, on the 66,287 total number of ballot papers counted only 947 ballots were invalid which indicates a slight improvement in voter sensitization.
The Kayunga by-election also being the first of this kind since the general election held in February 2021 has been a tense election with many factors and violence marred in it.
The NRM party chairman who is also the president of Uganda Yoweri Museveni was also on the ground to campaign for their cadre together with the prime minister Hon. Robinah Nabbanja as various camps also invested more resources in this election.
In his first speech after his declaration, chairman elect Muwonge Andrew thanked his party chairman, the party secretariat, district executive and the people of Kayunga for the victory and called upon unity for the success and development of their district.
The National Unity Platform principle Hon. Robert Kyagulanyi who was also recently barred from campaigning for his candidate expressed anger on his twitter page after the declarations claiming that this was broad day light robbery over their candidate victory.
He added that the signed DR forms give a 15,000 votes lead to their candidate Harriet which clearly shows that their victory has been just rigged.
