Polls opened and ended Thursday, paving way for a rather delayed vote counting exercise in Uganda’s hotly contested election as the country climaxes a deadly election that has so far claimed over 50 people in poll-related violence.

Mr Museveni, 76, has garnered 1.5 million votes (65%) while opposition front-runner and NUP presidential candidate, Bobi Wine had 647,146 votes (27.39%), according to the Electoral Commission’s (EC)  second batch of provisional results.

Uganda's opposition frontrunner in this week's presidential election said on Friday he rejected early preliminary results released by the electoral commission.

"We are winning," Bobi Wine told a news conference at his home in the capital in which he alleged fraud and violence in Thursday's polls but did not provide evidence.

His claims have not been independently verified by Reuters or observers, though the United States and the European Union, which have previously deployed observation missions for Ugandan elections, did not deploy teams this time.

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