Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies (JAIS): ISSN 2523-6725 (online) May 2018 Vol. 2, No. 5 Citation: Nabukeera, M. (2018). Election-related Violence in Uganda: A case of Uganda’s Multiparty Elections. Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies. 2(5), 40 - 58. 40 Election-related Violence in Uganda: A case of Uganda’s Multiparty Elections By Nabukeera Madinah Abstract Uganda experienced a stuffy dogmatic past and is yet to witness a self-governing succession of power. The present National resistance movement establishment has for the past three decades steered in relative peace and made substantial changes in the direction of democratic unification through numerous political transformations including but not limited to the re-emergence of multiparty representation during elections of 2006, 2011 and 2016. Nevertheless, the expression and existence of electoral violence in these elections presents a disturbing inconsistency to Uganda’s entitlement to democratization as well as generating hypothetical confrontational aftermaths in Uganda’s previously difficult and confusing political past. The objective of this study is to present a thematic presentation of this problem through specifically identifying the types, causes and manifestations of electoral violence, the impact these have on Uganda’s democratisation process and to explore strategies that may strengthen Uganda’s multiparty democratic system. The study achieves this through using a conceptual framework of electoral violence framed over the case studies of the 2006, 2011 and 2016 multiparty general elections and using the documentary review method. The findings conclude that electoral violence manifested as both an isolated phenomenon aimed at subverting electoral outcomes as well as a form of greater political conflict generated out of frustrated political goals and a lack of a democratic culture. The conclusions suggest a need for implementation of a wide range of civic education programs and the strengthening of democratic institutions these can help Uganda move towards a genuine consolidation of democracy and foster the development of a non-violent culture in Uganda’s electoral affairs. Key words: Election-related violence; Uganda; Kiiza Besigye; Yoweri Museveni; multiparty elections Background Universal elective processes were introduced in Uganda in 1961, immediately opportunists devised schemes of winning power in contradiction with the democratic occurrences. The common styles were sectarianism and rigging elections; this contradicted the democratic process since they misrepresent the results of the process, hence misrepresentation as a result of sectarian intoxication or cheating. In 1961-62 the experts of rigging elections were the Uganda Peoples’ Congress (UPC). In 1962 Democratic Party (DP) and Uganda National Congress (UNC) were politically active under the nationalistic podium. The UPC and DP sectarianism steadily rigged the elections of 1961, 1962 and 1980 using; The election law in the 60s -80s was a common tool, assisted by a British official, well- known as Peagram. All Political Parties had their own ballot boxes, ballot papers had only Party symbols (a hoe for DP, an open palm for UPC and one finger for KY glued on the top of the wooden ballot box. On elections days, the ballot box was covered with grass similar to shelter for rural bathrooms. They enclosed it with shelter used with grass similar with rural bathrooms found in village homes to hide the ballot box to the level that those in the queue didn’t know