Legislative size (voting members)

Uganda, Electoral Parliamentary Act 2005, accessed 23 January 2021

8(1). As requried by article 78(1)(b) of the Constitution, there shall be one woman representative in Parliament for every district or city. […]

Article 58.1: Each returning officer shall, immediately after the addition of votes under section (1) of section 53, or after any recount, declare elected the candidate who has obtained the largest number of votes by completing a return in the prescribed form. […]

Uganda, Electoral Commission, Voter Education Handbook, Revised Edition 2020, accessed 23 January 2021

“Election of representatives to Parliament falls under 3 categories:

a) Directly Elected Members of Parliament whose electoral area (EA) is a constituency i.e a county or part of it as may be determined by Parliament.

b) District Women Representatives to Parliament in line with affirmative action.

c) Special Interest Groups comprising of the following:

i) Five Workers representatives, one of whom must be a woman.

ii) Five representatives of Persons with Disabilities, (PWDs) one of whom must be a woman.

iii) Ten representatives of the Uganda Peoples Defence forces (UPDF) two of whom must be women.

iv) Five representatives of Youth, one of whom must be a woman.”

In addition to above, the Parliamentary Elections (Amendment) Bill, 2020 introduced further five seats for representatives of older persons in Parliament.

According to the statistics provided by the Commission, for the 2021 General Elections, there were 353 constituencies each returning one member and there were 146 districts each returing one woman member. Thus, in total there were 499 directly elected members. Further 30 members are indirectly elected (see Sources).