Zeinab Mohammed Denderi won the Nyankpala Campus run-off election by a slim margin of just 10 votes.
She polled 761 votes (representing 50.3 percent) as against her contender, John Bosco, who polled 751 votes (which represented 49.7 percent).
UDS, built as a multipurpose campus, has four campuses: Tamale, Nyankpala, Wa and Navrongo.
“Alhamdulillah!! It was never an easy journey but you made it possible," the SRC pesident-elect wrote on his Facebook page.
"We won, UDS won!! It is a collective win thus a collective effort and responsibility. We promise to deliver collectively In Sha Allah.”
The election was held after an injunction on the elections was overturned by a court this week.
The President elect is a level 300 Social Change Communication student and Solomon Titus Glover is the Vice President elect for the 2019/2020 academic year.