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Government Properties Income Trust Announces Annual Meeting Results

05/17/2011

NEWTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Government Properties Income Trust (NYSE: GOV) announced the results of its annual meeting held earlier today as follows:

Jeffrey P. Somers was re-elected as an Independent Trustee, receiving 99.0% of the all shares voted.

Barry M. Portnoy was re-elected as a Managing Trustee, receiving 72.2% of all shares voted.

Shareholders approved, with 98.8% of all the shares voted, a nonbinding advisory resolution approving the compensation paid to the Company's named executive officers.

Regarding the proposal required by the Dodd-Frank Law and applicable SEC rules to be presented by shareholders concerning the frequency of shareholder nonbinding advisory votes on named executive officers' compensation, the recommendation for such a vote every three years was approved, with 55.8% of all shares voted.

Shareholders approved, with 99.7% of all shares voted, the ratification of appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as GOV's independent registered public accounting firm.

Government Properties Income Trust is a real estate investment trust, or REIT, which owns properties leased primarily to the U.S. Government and state governments located throughout the United States. GOV is headquartered in Newton, MA.

A Maryland Real Estate Investment Trust with transferable shares of beneficial interest listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
No shareholder, Trustee or officer is personally liable for any act or obligation of the Trust.

Government Properties Income Trust
Timothy A. Bonang, 617-219-1410
Vice President, Investor Relations
or
Elisabeth A. Heiss, 617-219-1410
Manager, Investor Relations
www.govreit.com

Source: Government Properties Income Trust

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