Verify your EC voter registration, Museveni urges NRM members

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President Yoweri Museveni has urged all National Resistance Movement (NRM) party leaders and supporters to check their names on the Electoral Commission (EC) voters’ registers and assist in updating them in preparation for the 2026 elections.

Museveni, who is also the national chairman of NRM, told the party members on Tuesday (January 7) that the EC has already announced the electoral roadmap for the general elections in early 2026.

“This process begins with the verification and update of voter registers. I urge all NRM leaders and supporters to check that your names are on the registers and assist in updating them by removing deceased individuals and adding new voters who have turned 18,” he said in a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter.

In the last general elections, registered voters were slightly over 18 million, but the EC now projects them to be over 24 million in 2026.

The EC kicked off the voters’ registers verification and update on Tuesday, January 7, and the exercise will end on January 10, 2025.

“The registered voters’ names will be displayed at every polling station in Uganda so that we all go and check in order to ensure that our names are on that register. This is the verification to confirm that your name and the names of the people who you know in your area are on the register,” Museveni said.

Additionally, he said, that young people who have turned 18 years of age should be registered to vote.

EC roadmap

Nominations for village special interest group committee candidates will take place between June 2 and June 10, 2025, while local government (LG) council elections will be between September 3 and September 12, the same year.

Nominations of parliamentary candidates will start on September 16 and end on September 17, 2025, while those of presidential candidates will commence on October 2 and end on October 3, the same year.

The polling for presidential, general parliamentary, and LG councils for the 2026 general elections will be between January 12 and February 9, 2026.

Campaigns will commence at the latest by the second week of October 2025, and an up-to-date national voters’ register will be ready by the end of May 2025.

The current term of office for all elected leaders will expire on May 12, 2026.

Public servants who wish to stand in the LG elections must resign by August 2, 2025, and those for parliamentary by June 13, 2025, while for presidential by October 1, the same year.