Veteran Ugandan leader Yoweri Museveni took a huge early lead on Saturday in the vote count for presidential elections marked by a low turnout and opposition claims of irregularities.
Analysts had originally forecast a closely fought contest. But provisional electoral commission results from about a quarter of all polling stations showed Museveni with 71.5 percent of the votes counted, and his archrival Kizza Besigye trailing on 23.0 percent.