Uganda’s January 2026 general elections were the seventh in a five-cycle that started in 1996 after the promulgation of a new constitution in 1995. Predictably, incumbent President Yoweri Museveni scored a landslide victory, and his ruling National Resistance Movement party cemented its supermajority in the national legislature and claimed an overwhelming majority of local government positions. With widespread state repression and an uneven campaign environment, the opposition lost ground at all levels to the ruling president and party, who commanded vast incumbency advantages. This election cycle reflected a continuation of a deepening autocratic landscape. Opposition leaders and supporters were arrested, detained, and tortured. The internet, social media, and mobile money service were shut down two days before the polls, and on polling day, technical failures of biometric voter verification kits caused long delays in the start of voting. These issues, along with possible voter fatigue, combined to produc a historically low turnout, according to official results from the Electoral Commission. Museveni was re-elected for a new term, which will amount to 45 years of uninterrupted rule when it ends in 2031. Furthermore, at 81 years old, Museveni once again delayed the question of presidential succession, which is Uganda’s most important unresolved political question.