{"id":4415,"date":"2021-10-28T08:08:44","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=4415"},"modified":"2021-10-28T08:08:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:08:51","slug":"electoral-commission-announces-vacancies-to-be-filled-during-the-december-15-and-16-2021-by-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/electoral-commission-announces-vacancies-to-be-filled-during-the-december-15-and-16-2021-by-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"ELECTORAL COMMISSION ANNOUNCES VACANCIES TO BE FILLED DURING THE DECEMBER 15 and 16 2021 BY- ELECTIONS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><\/td><td><strong>By Our Reporters <\/strong><br><br>The Electoral Commission is implementing the programme for\u00a0 by-elections for Local Government Councils in various electoral areas across the country where vacancies exist.<br><br>According to a list released by the EC the e categories to be filled during the by-elections include ; District Chairperson (Kayunga District),  District Women Councilors (DWC),  District Directly Elected Councilors (DDEC) and  Municipality Directly Elected Councilors (MDEC). <br><br>Others are ,  Municipality Women Councilors (MWC), Sub-county Chairpersons (SCCP), Sub-county Directly Elected Councilors (SCDEC) and Sub-County Women Councilors (SCWEC).<br><br>The EC named  the  Special Interest Groups (SIGs) Councilors who will  include; PWDs ; Older Persons, Workers  and the  Youth.<br><br>&#8220;The various activities related to the\u00a0 by-elections commenced\u00a0 \u00a0this October, 2021 and will conclude with Polling and Tallying of Results on Wednesday 15th, December, 2021 (for SIGs) and Thursday, 16th December, 2021 for Kayunga District Chairperson and other Local Government Councils,&#8221; a statement from the EC read in part .<br><br>For more details about the by-elections and affected electoral areas,\u00a0 please visit the EC  website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ec.or.ug\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ec.or.ug\/news<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/gmail\/about\/policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/td><td><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporters The Electoral Commission is implementing the programme for\u00a0 by-elections for Local Government Councils in various electoral areas<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4416,"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":[128,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elections","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/IMG-20211025-WA0266.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4684,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/nomination-of-candidates-for-local-government-council-by-elections-kicks-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":4415,"position":0},"title":"NOMINATION OF CANDIDATES FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCIL BY-ELECTIONS KICKS OFF","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"November 29, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"The Electoral Commission today started the exercise for nominating candidates that will contest in the Local Government Councils By-elections .\u00a0The nominations will be conducted at the respective District\/City headquarters, in those electoral areas where the vacancies exist, beginning at 9am and ending at 5pm, a statement released by the EC\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/category\/elections\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Byabakama.jpeg","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Byabakama.jpeg 1x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Byabakama.jpeg 1.5x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Byabakama.jpeg 2x, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Byabakama.jpeg 3x"},"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":4415,"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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