The Electoral Commission (EC) has officially concluded the nationwide exercise to display the National Voters Register and that of Special Interest Groups today, Thursday 15th May 2025, at exactly 6:00 PM.
The process, which kicked off on April 25th, was conducted at every polling station across Uganda and aimed to give citizens a chance to verify and correct their details ahead of the 2026 general elections.
For 21 straight days, registered voters were urged to physically visit their polling stations where the register was publicly pinned. The purpose was to confirm that their names and photographs appeared correctly, to correct any errors in personal data, and to report the names of people who have died, moved, registered more than once, are underage, or are otherwise ineligible to vote.
This verification phase is considered critical to cleaning and authenticating the voters register, which is the master list of all eligible Ugandans who will cast their votes.
Failure to check your details could mean that on polling day in 2026, you may be turned away from voting if your name has issues, was omitted, or appeared incorrectly.
Although the main display has ended, the EC is now moving into what it calls the supplementary display phase. Starting Thursday 16th May until 26th May 2025, voters can still raise objections and complaints about names that were wrongly removed or those still on the list but believed to be ineligible.
This phase will take place at parish and ward level offices. Disputes raised will be heard by the Parish Tribunal, a special panel set up to listen to these objections and either confirm or reverse earlier decisions. After this phase ends, the register will be finalized and used in the 2025/2026 electoral processes, including nominations and voting.
As of now, the National Voters Register contains a total of approximately 19.9 million eligible voters. Earlier this year, during the general update exercise held between January 22nd and February 26th, the EC had targeted at least four million new registrants.
However, only 361,432 people were successfully added. This was due to various logistical and technical challenges, including delayed deliveries of voter registration equipment and system breakdowns in some locations.
Despite these setbacks, the EC says it is committed to delivering a clean and credible register. Officials now urge all Ugandans to take the final verification steps seriously because no changes will be allowed once the register is closed. Those who miss this chance could be left out of the 2026 elections altogether.
The EC says your right to vote in 2026 depends on whether your name is correctly on the list. If you did not check, there’s one last window during the supplementary display ,but once it closes, there will be no more chances.
