Renowned journalist Farida Yasmin has been elected President of the Jatiya Press Club while Shyamal Dutta General Secretary.

They came out to be victorious in daylong polls held at Jatiya Press Club premises in the capital Dhaka on Saturday.

Farida Yasmin bagged 567 votes while her rival candidate Kamal Uddin Sabuj get 401 votes. Farida was the president of the outgoing committee.

Meanwhile, Shyamal Dutta secured 496 votes while Ilias Khan got 474 votes for the general secretary post.

Hasan Hafiz was elected senior vice president (559) and Rezwanul Haque Raza (583) vice president.

The other office bearers of the 17-member JPC executive committee are -- Joint Secretaries Ayub Bhuiyan, (540) and M Ashraf Ali (491), and Treasurer Shahed Chowdhury (576).

The 10 members are Farid Hossain (495), Kazi Rawnak Hossain (422), Shahnaj Siddiqui Shoma (390), Kallyan Saha (382), Shahnaz Begum Poly (360), Syed Abdal Ahmad (347), Julhas Alam (345), Bakhriar Rana (330), Mohammad Momin Hossain (330) and Simanta Khokon (289).

Voting in the Jatiya Press Club election was held from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm without any break where 985 voters out of 1,100 exercised their franchise.

After the vote count, chief election commissioner Mostafa-e-Jamil announced the results around 8:00pm.