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21/05/2020 12:10

RNS Number : 6436N
  
Legal & General Group Plc
  
21 May 2020
  
 

Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 21 MAY 2020
 
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at 1 Coleman Street, London, EC2R 5AA all of the resolutions proposed in the Notice of the Meeting were passed by shareholders by means of a poll vote.
 
The votes cast were as follows:
 



Resolution  


For 1


Against


Votes Withheld 2




No. of shares1


%


No. of shares


%




Resolution 1
Receipt of financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019


4,301,033,565


100.00


51,627


0.00


5,511,070




Resolution 2
Declaration of a final dividend of 12.64p per ordinary share


4,292,766,661


99.68


13,687,097


0.32


142,504




Resolution 3
Election of Michelle Scrimgeour as a Director


4,272,635,530


99.22


33,521,729


0.78


439,003




Resolution 4 
Re-election of Henrietta Baldock as a Director


4,268,136,293


99.12


37,713,879


0.88


746,090




Resolution 5
Re-election of Philip Broadley as a Director


4,260,794,963


99.02


42,094,708


0.98


3,706,591




Resolution 6
Re-election of Jeff Davies as a Director


4,262,572,077


98.99


43,433,340


1.01


590,845




Resolution 7
Re-election of Sir John Kingman as a Director


4,259,991,962


98.93


46,028,067


1.07


576,233




Resolution 8
Re-election of Lesley Knox as a Director


4,216,364,534


97.99


86,648,594


2.01


3,583,134




Resolution 9
Re-election of George Lewis as a Director


4,256,640,622


98.92


46,259,430


1.08


3,696,210




Resolution 10
Re-election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director


4,272,099,397


99.21


33,914,838


0.79


582,027




Resolution 11
Re-election of Toby Strauss as a Director


4,264,241,323


99.03


41,598,315


0.97


756,624




Resolution 12
Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director


4,262,949,452


99.00


43,029,061


1.00


617,748




Resolution 13
Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director


4,279,417,179


99.38


26,640,179


0.62


538,904




Resolution 14
Re-appointment of KPMG LLP as auditors
 


4,297,894,923


99.81


8,282,558


0.19


418,781




Resolution 15
To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration


4,294,245,109


99.72


11,932,706


0.28


418,447




Resolution 16
Approval of Remuneration Policy


4,109,620,878


95.71


184,122,218


4.29


12,853,165




Resolution 17
Approval of Remuneration Report


4,089,839,555


95.40


197,291,047


4.60


19,465,659




Resolution 18
Authority to allot equity securities


4,258,196,462


98.88


48,153,560


1.12


246,240




Resolution 19
Authority to allot contingent convertible securities


4,271,643,788


99.27


31,592,758


0.73


3,359,715




Resolution 20
Authority to make political donations


4,150,980,966


96.39


155,304,772


3.61


310,524




Resolution 21*
Disapplication of pre-emption rights


4,234,148,482


98.39


69,207,175


1.61


3,240,605




Resolution 22*
Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights


4,269,250,175


99.15


36,780,344


0.85


565,743




Resolution  23*
Additional authority to diappply pre-emption rights in connection with CCS


4,252,907,716


98.84


50,104,912


1.16


3,583,633




Resolution  24*
Authority to purchase own shares


4,225,110,260


98.17


78,594,278


1.83


2,891,723




Resolution  25*
Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice


4,013,628,988


93.03


300,656,475


6.97


170,705



 
Notes:
1          The 'for' votes include those giving the Chairman discretion. 
2          A vote 'withheld' is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes 'for' and 'against' each resolution.
3          Votes 'for' and 'against' are expressed as a percentage of the votes received.
4          Voting was conducted by poll. 
5          The total number of votes cast was 4,314,285,463 representing 72.32% of voting capital as at 19 May 2020.  At the close of business on 19 May 2020, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,965,572,140 ordinary shares (no shares are held in Treasury).  
*           Denotes a Special Resolution. 
 
The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual of General Meeting which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and also on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/investors/shareholder-centre/agm/
 
In accordance with Listing Rules 9.6.3(1) and 9.6.18 a copy of the resolutions passed (other than those concerning ordinary business) will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will also be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
 
 
AGM statements from the Group Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer have been made available on the Company's website at https://www.legalandgeneralgroup.com/media-centre/videos/.
 



Name of person making notification:


Daniella Newson




Contact number:


020 3124 2107




Date of notification:


21 May 2020



 
 
 


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