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25/05/2017 17:00

RNS Number : 2812G
Legal & General Group Plc
25 May 2017
Legal & general group plc
RESULTS OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING HELD ON 25 MAY 2017
Legal & General Group Plc announces that at its Annual General Meeting held today at The Honourable Artillery Company, Armoury House, City Road, London EC1Y 2BQ, 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 2016
4,228,180,492
99.99
250,416
0.01
7,728,063
Resolution 2
Declaration of a final dividend of 10.35p per ordinary share
4,226,267,373
99.99
512,339
0.01
9,799,978
Resolution 3
Election of Sir John Kingman as a Director
4,204,160,556
99.34
28,039,784
0.66
44,387,308
Resolution 4
Election of Philip Broadley as a Director
4,228,829,588
99.92
3,202,831
0.08
4,524,977
Resolution 5
Election of Jeff Davies as a Director
4,190,680,447
99.02
41,361,361
0.98
4,515,588
Resolution 6
Election of Lesley Knox as a Director
4,228,530,386
99.92
3,389,504
0.08
4,639,070
Resolution 7
Election of Kerrigan Procter as a Director
4,203,141,913
99.32
28,928,019
0.68
4,473,409
Resolution 8
Election of Toby Strauss as a Director
4,228,884,577
99.93
2,975,044
0.07
4,696,975
Resolution 9
Re-election of Carolyn Bradley as a Director
4,221,424,160
99.74
10,794,870
0.26
4,367,818
Resolution 10
Re-election of Julia Wilson as a Director
4,218,755,987
99.68
13,469,408
0.32
4,307,207
Resolution 11
Re-election of Nigel Wilson as a Director
4,207,661,793
99.42
24,754,247
0.58
4,170,808
Resolution 12
Re-election of Mark Zinkula as a Director
4,203,474,214
99.32
28,957,320
0.68
4,153,166
Resolution 13
Re-appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditors
4,194,700,017
99.47
22,223,391
0.53
19,657,709
Resolution 14
To authorise the Director's to fix the Auditors' remuneration
4,209,139,026
99.74
10,806,1453
0.26
16,635,946
Resolution 15
To adopt the Remuneration Policy
3,851,461,140
91.23
370,032,785
8.77
15,093,723
Resolution 16
Approval of Remuneration Report
3,938,843,201
93.17
288,951,561
6.83
8,784,882
Resolution 17
Authority to allot equity securities
4,223,066,278
99.78
9,405,552
0.22
4,104,472
Resolution 18
Authority to make political donations
4,095,941,472
97.23
116,545,046
2.77
24,100,805
Resolution 19*
Disapplication of pre-emption rights
4,222,631,830
99.78
9,341,072
0.22
4,596,128
Resolution 20*
Additional authority to disapply pre-emption rights
3,766,027,540
88.99
466,030,065
11.01
4,496,177
Resolution 21*
Authority to purchase own shares
4,171,516,125
98.57
60,597,507
1.43
4,471,496
Resolution 22*
Authority to call general meetings (other than an AGM) on not less than 14 clear days' notice
4,011,525,781
95.22
201,402,316
4.78
23,657,031
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 proxy votes cast was 4,236,587,648representing 71.1% of voting capital as at 23 May 2017. At the close of business on 23 May 2017, the issued share capital of the Company was 5,955,346,117 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 http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSMand also on the Company's website at http://investor.legalandgeneral.com/agm.cfm 
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 http://www.hemscott.com/nsm.do
Name of person making notification:
Helen Baker
Contact number:
020 3124 2139
Date of notification:
25 May 2017

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