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Uganda: election results by polling station

2006–2021 · 4 elections · UGA

SAGE has presidential election results for Uganda from 4 elections between 2006 and 2021: 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021. The smallest unit is the polling station. The 2021 election has 34,767 polling stations, and 100% of them have a location. Unit boundaries are available for 2011, 2016 and 2021.

Elections

Units are the smallest units in the data, and located units are those with coordinates. A year with several rows has several contests or votes; filter on them before you add up votes.

YearElection typeVote typeRound Units% locatedVotes Polygons
2006Presidential19,7860%6,941,154[map]
2011Presidential23,968100%7,928,276yes[map]
2016Presidential28,010100%9,851,812yes[map]
2021Presidential34,767100%10,350,819yes[map]

Download

csv opens in Excel, Stata, R, or Python. gpkg has the unit boundaries for QGIS, ArcGIS, R, or Python. parquet has the vote rows as Parquet. rds is the native R sf object. Each ZIP has a README with the columns.

All years: [csv 11 MB] [gpkg 74 MB] [parquet 105 MB] [rds 89 MB] [codebook 2.4 MB]

YearDownloads
2021[csv 4.8 MB] [gpkg 54 MB] [parquet 2.8 MB]
2016[csv 2.6 MB] [gpkg 9.9 MB] [parquet 2.0 MB]
2011[csv 2.4 MB] [gpkg 9.5 MB] [parquet 1.7 MB]
2006[csv 1.5 MB] [gpkg 483 KB] [parquet 1.5 MB]

In R or Python:

R:      install.packages("sage")
        sage::sage_load("Uganda", years = 2021)

Python: import sage
        sage.sage_load("Uganda", years=[2021])

Sources

Citation

Dasanaike, Noah. “The Small-Area Global Elections (SAGE) Dataset.” Scientific Data (2026). Paper · Harvard Dataverse

Some of these data come from other researchers’ collections; see please also cite.

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