{"id":15854,"date":"2025-10-25T17:13:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=15854"},"modified":"2025-10-25T17:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:26:44","slug":"ec-sets-new-dates-for-fresh-nominations-where-candidates-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/ec-sets-new-dates-for-fresh-nominations-where-candidates-died\/","title":{"rendered":"EC Sets New Dates For Fresh Nominations Where Candidates Died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Uganda&#8217;s electoral commission has in accordance with Section 26 of the Parliamentary Elections Act, Cap 177,  set  Monday 27th and Tuesday 28th October 2025, as the dates for conducting fresh nomination in the various electoral areas across the country, where a nominated candidate has passed away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However the EC clarified that candidates who were previously duly nominated to contest in the affected elective positions at the respective Local Government Councils, shall not be required to undergo nomination again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Aspiring candidates are advised to obtain nomination forms and guidelines for the respective Local Government Council elective position from their District Electoral Commission offices, or obtain soft copies of the forms and guidelines from the Electoral Commission website:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.or.ug\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.ec.or.ug<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor: msserwanga@gmail.com <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s electoral commission has in accordance with Section 26 of the Parliamentary Elections Act, Cap 177, set Monday 27th and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/download.png","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1937,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/nominations-for-45127-local-government-posts-is-underway\/","url_meta":{"origin":15854,"position":0},"title":"NOMINATIONS FOR 45,127 LOCAL GOVERNMENT POSTS IS UNDERWAY","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"September 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Electoral Commission has embarked on a nation wide exercise to nominate candidates for 45,127 elective positions at local government council level. \u00a0During the exercise that is running from September 21st to October 1st ,2020, candidates will be nominated for the positions of district, city chairpersons and councillors , municipality\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/national-news\/politics-national-news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/paul-bukenya.jpg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/paul-bukenya.jpg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/paul-bukenya.jpg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/paul-bukenya.jpg 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4580,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-sets-november-29th-and-30th-the-dates-for-nomination-of-candidates-for-the-local-government-councils-by-elections\/","url_meta":{"origin":15854,"position":1},"title":"ELECTORAL COMMISSION SETS NOVEMBER 29th AND 30th THE DATES FOR NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS  BY-ELECTIONS","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"November 18, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"As the Day-D\u00a0 for the slated By-elections draws near ,the Electoral Commission has earmarked \u00a0Monday 29th November and Tuesday 30th November 2021, the dates for the nomination of candidates for the long awaited Local Government Councils by-elections 2021. 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