During live election coverage on January 16–17, NBS TV displayed district-level figures alongside vote tallies. It is not clear from the broadcast whether the numbers represented registered voters, votes counted at the time or another dataset.
Take a look at the photos below (slideshow). NBS TV displayed 11 districts, including Buikwe, Iganga, Kasese, Mityana, Mubende and Wakiso—six that rank among the 22 (out of 146) with the highest number of voters.
Highest is defined as not less than 200,000 and more than 1 million voters.
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The figures NBS TV displayed—total number of voters in the 11 districts—differed from those of the Electoral Commission, as this table shows.
Without an on-screen explanation of the dataset used, viewers could not easily determine what the figures represented.
NBS TV did not respond to OJ-UGANDA’s request for clarification on what the figures represented.
View our interactive map of all 146 districts here.
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