EC Sets March 12th for Final Round of Residual LC3 Elections

The Electoral Commission (EC) has announced March 12 as the date for residual elections in areas where polls for LC3, Town Council, and Municipal Division Chairpersons and councillors were not conducted during the main election cycle.

EC’s Julius Mucunguzi said the Commission has put all District Returning Officers and field staff on notice, with firm instructions that no area should be left out of the exercise.

The residual elections are the last remaining item on a general election calendar that has run since January, when Ugandans voted for the President and Members of Parliament. Several areas at the local government level were unable to complete their polls at the time due to various reasons, and March 12 is when those communities will finally get their turn.

LC3 units, which include sub-counties, Town Councils, and Municipal Divisions, are the layer of government that sits closest to ordinary Ugandans. The chairpersons and councillors elected at this level handle issues that directly affect day-to-day life in their communities, which makes the completion of these polls all the more important.

“The Commission has tasked all its District Returning Officers and staff at all levels to ensure that no area is left behind in this undertaking,” Mucunguzi said.

Once the March 12 polls are done, Uganda’s 2026 general election cycle will be complete. The Commission has been clear that finishing this process is a constitutional duty, and that every voter in the affected areas deserves the same opportunity to elect their local leaders as those who voted in the earlier rounds.