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21 May 2020
EnQuest PLC ("EnQuest" or the "Company")
Voting results of the Annual General Meeting held on 21 May 2020
EnQuest announces that at the Company's Annual General Meeting held today, all resolutions set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting and put to the meeting were passed by the requisite majority by way of a poll.
The results of the poll are set out below. The number of ordinary shares in issue was 1,695,801,955.
Resolution | For * | % | Against | % | Withheld ** | |
1
| Annual Report & Accounts 2019 | 631,440,270 | 99.91 | 516,506 | 0.08 | 181,221 |
2
| Re-election of Amjad Bseisu | 622,613,047 | 98.49 | 9,511,028 | 1.5 | 13,922 |
3
| Re-election of Jonathan Swinney | 630,785,605 | 99.79 | 1,260,706 | 0.2 | 91,687 |
4
| Election of Martin Houston | 579,365,203 | 93.45 | 40,559,723 | 6.54 | 12,213,071 |
5
| Re-election of Laurie Fitch | 550,225,065 | 88.12 | 74,077,038 | 11.87 | 7,835,894 |
6
| Re-election of Carl Hughes | 631,660,711 | 99.96 | 200,523 | 0.03 | 276,764 |
7
| Re-election of Philip Holland | 631,517,114 | 99.94 | 344,300 | 0.05 | 276,583 |
8
| Re-election of Howard Paver | 624,789,961 | 98.87 | 7,071,069 | 1.12 | 276,968 |
9
| Re-election of John Winterman | 631,664,975 | 99.96 | 196,440 | 0.03 | 276,583 |
10 | Appointment of auditor
| 631,623,690 | 99.96 | 208,816 | 0.03 | 305,492 |
11 | Authority to set auditor remuneration | 631,671,419 | 99.93 | 386,604 | 0.06 | 79,975 |
12 | Directors' Remuneration Report | 596,357,342 | 94.35 | 35,674,289 | 5.64 | 106,366 |
13 | 2020 Performance Share Plan | 618,106,364 | 97.8 | 13,819,550 | 2.19 | 212,083 |
14 | 2020 Restricted Share Plan | 617,799,657 | 97.79 | 13,888,486 | 2.2 | 449,854 |
15 | 2020 Deferred Bonus Share Plan | 631,125,636 | 99.86 | 790,227 | 0.13 | 222,135 |
16 | 2020 Sharesave Scheme | 631,611,959 | 99.94 | 313,441 | 0.05 | 212,598 |
17 | Political Donations | 626,201,307 | 99.12 | 5,516,707 | 0.87 | 419,984 |
18 | Authority to allot shares | 628,023,515 | 99.37 | 3,900,128 | 0.62 | 214,355 |
19*** | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 631,417,658 | 99.96 | 215,681 | 0.03 | 504,659 |
20*** | Authority to purchase own shares | 618,299,873 | 97.84 | 13,567,046 | 2.15 | 271,078 |
* Includes discretionary votes
** A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted for the purposes of the calculation of the proportion of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution
*** Indicates a Special Resolution
The full text of each resolution can be found in the Notice of Meeting which is available on the Company's website, www.enquest.com
The Company will submit to the National Storage Mechanism copies of the Resolutions passed at the Annual General Meeting and these will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism
ENDS
For further information please contact:
EnQuest PLC Tel: +44 (0)20 7925 4900
Stefan Ricketts (Company Secretary)