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1980 Ugandan general election

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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
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the previous year and were the first since the pre-independence elections in
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to start an armed uprising against Obote's government on 6 February 1981.
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on 10 and 11 December 1980. They followed the overthrow of
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Ugandan general election, 1980
Politics of Uganda

Constitution
Human rights
President
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Yoweri Museveni
Vice President
Jessica Alupo
Prime Minister
Robinah Nabbanja
Cabinet
Parliament
Speaker
Rebecca Kadaga
Supreme Court
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High Court
Industrial Court
Administrative divisions
Regions
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