[1] Kiwanda was first elected to Uganda's parliament in 2001, representing Mityana North Constituency, serving in that capacity until 2006.

[2] In 2011, he bounced back into parliament on the National Resistance Movement (NRM) political party ticket.

In June of that year, he was appointed as State Minister for Tourism in the Cabinet of Uganda.

That left Muhamad Kibedi Nsegumire, as the sole NRM representative in the upcoming 14 January 2021 general election.

[3] Kiwanda was instead elected by the Central Executive Committee (CEC), the supreme organ of the NRM, as the Party's Vice President for Uganda's Central Region for the term 2021 to 2026.