Uganda Election Day Gender Demographics

Uganda Election Day Gender Demographics

Country: 
Year: 
2016
Level of government: 
National

One question that CEON’s observers were asked to report on was the breakdown of polling officials by gender: 27% of the officials at the polling stations observed were women.

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