The Returning Officer (RO) of the election, Mohammad Zokaria, had earlier published the final list of the newly elected female lawmakers through a gazette notification on Sunday morning.

The EC on September 29 declared the nine nomination papers to be valid after scrutinising them.

Six out of the nine female lawmakers are from the ruling BNP while Jamaat-e-Islami, Islami Oikya Jote and opposition Jatiya Party (Ershad) has one lawmaker each.

The elected BNP lawmakers are Khodeza Emdad Lata, Newaz Halima Arlee, Fahima Hussain Jublee, Rasheda Begum Hira, Rezina Islam and Saimun Begum while the elected Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker is Rokeya Begum.

The two other elected female lawmakers are Naima Sultana of Islami Oikya Jote (IOJ) and Nur-e-Hasna Lily Chowdhury of Jatiya Party (Ershad).

BNP has 36 out of the 45 reserved seats for women in the JS while Jamaat has four, Jatiya Party (Ershad) has three and Bangladesh Jatiya Party (BJP) and IOJ has one each.