📷 Museveni campaigns in Kaberamaido, Kalaki

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President Yoweri Museveni today, October 31, 2025, took his 2026 re-election campaign to voters in the districts of Kaberamaido and Kalaki.

Museveni, who is seeking his seventh consecutive presidential term on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) party ticket, began his campaign trail in the Teso region with a rally in Kapelebyong district yesterday.

By the time of writing this story, he had held his first campaign event of the day at Kaburepoli Primary School in Ochero sub-county, Kaberamaido, and was at the second and final rally at Kalaki Primary School playground in Kalaki town council, Kalaki.

Kaberamaido has a population of 140,986 people scattered across nine sub-counties/town councils, 29 parishes and 234 villages, while Kilaki is inhabited by 149,736 people in 10 sub-counties/town councils, 34 parishes and 224 villages.

⁠In the 2021 general election, Kaberamaido had 52,210 registered voters. Out of these, 34,278 (65.6%) voted.  Museveni got 18,589 (56.4%) votes while his main challenger, Robert Kyagulanyi of the National Unity Platform party garnered 9,058 (27.6%).

⁠The district now has a total of 64,167 voters and 147 polling stations, up from 95 in 2021.

Kalaki had 53,973 registered voters in the last general election and out of these, 35,878 (66.7%) voted.

Museveni polled 24,556 (71.4%) votes while Kyagulanyi got 3,839(11.2%).
Kalaki now has a total of 65,041 registered voters and 151 polling stations, up from 103 in 2021.

The main economic activities in both districts are agriculture and capture fisheries. There are also small and medium-scale enterprises, bodaboda riding and other petty trades.

The incumbent President is campaigning for a seventh term under the theme: Protecting the Gains, Making a Qualitative Leap into High Middle-Income Status.

The theme focuses on safeguarding achievements in the last 39 years, such as peace and development, while aiming to propel Uganda to a high middle-income status.