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RELX PLC
Result of Annual General Meeting 2024
The Company held its Annual General Meeting at 9.30am today, Thursday 25 April 2024.
All valid proxy votes (whether submitted electronically or in hard copy form) were included in the poll taken at the meeting.
The table below shows the results of the poll on all 20 resolutions.
| Resolution | Votes For | % votes cast for | Votes Against | % votes cast against | Total votes cast (excluding votes withheld) | % of issued capital voted (excluding treasury shares) | Votes Withheld |
1. | Receive the 2023 Annual Report | 1,564,609,496 | 99.89 | 1,705,231 | 0.11 | 1,566,314,727 | 83.44 | 9,513,796 |
2. | Approve Directors' Remuneration Report | 1,513,406,755 | 96.05 | 62,241,449 | 3.95 | 1,575,648,204 | 83.94 | 180,316 |
3. | Declaration of 2023 Final Dividend | 1,574,204,019 | 99.91 | 1,387,977 | 0.09 | 1,575,591,996 | 83.94 | 236,527 |
4. | Re-appointment of auditors | 1,567,230,016 | 99.47 | 8,352,532 | 0.53 | 1,575,582,548 | 83.94 | 245,974 |
5. | Auditors' remuneration | 1,574,141,212 | 99.94 | 985,576 | 0.06 | 1,575,126,788 | 83.91 | 701,734 |
6. | Elect Bianca Tetteroo as a Director | 1,575,263,972 | 99.98 | 323,480 | 0.02 | 1,575,587,452 | 83.94 | 241,071 |
7. | Re-elect Paul Walker as a Director | 1,517,127,897 | 96.52 | 54,717,288 | 3.48 | 1,571,845,185 | 83.74 | 3,983,337 |
8. | Re-elect Erik Engstrom as a Director | 1,574,803,897 | 99.94 | 895,755 | 0.06 | 1,575,699,652 | 83.94 | 128,871 |
9. | Re-elect Nick Luff as a Director | 1,570,451,370 | 99.67 | 5,137,624 | 0.33 | 1,575,588,994 | 83.94 | 239,529 |
10. | Re-elect Alistair Cox as a Director | 1,574,977,817 | 99.96 | 610,247 | 0.04 | 1,575,588,064 | 83.94 | 240,459 |
11. | Re-elect June Felix as a Director | 1,574,978,348 | 99.96 | 601,709 | 0.04 | 1,575,580,057 | 83.94 | 248,466 |
12. | Re-elect Charlotte Hogg as a Director | 1,575,291,318 | 99.98 | 282,445 | 0.02 | 1,575,573,763 | 83.94 | 254,760 |
13. | Re-elect Robert MacLeod as a Director | 1,530,451,710 | 97.14 | 45,127,547 | 2.86 | 1,575,579,257 | 83.94 | 249,265 |
14. | Re-elect Andrew Sukawaty as a Director | 1,575,289,814 | 99.98 | 286,831 | 0.02 | 1,575,576,645 | 83.94 | 251,878 |
15. | Re-elect Suzanne Wood as a Director | 1,528,967,044 | 97.04 | 46,617,946 | 2.96 | 1,575,584,990 | 83.94 | 243,532 |
16. | Authority to allot shares | 1,483,226,283 | 94.14 | 92,327,090 | 5.86 | 1,575,553,373 | 83.94 | 275,147 |
17. | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 1,562,026,576 | 99.56 | 6,968,815 | 0.44 | 1,568,995,391 | 83.59 | 6,833,132 |
18. | Additional disapplication of pre-emption rights | 1,555,208,863 | 99.12 | 13,800,147 | 0.88 | 1,569,009,010 | 83.59 | 6,819,513 |
19. | Authority to purchase own shares | 1,565,206,947 | 99.42 | 9,107,498 | 0.58 | 1,574,314,445 | 83.87 | 1,514,078 |
20. | Notice period for general meetings | 1,457,647,512 | 92.52 | 117,768,290 | 7.48 | 1,575,415,802 | 83.93 | 412,718 |
NOTES:
1. The 'For' vote includes those giving the Chair discretion.
2. Votes 'Withheld' are not a vote in law and are not counted in the calculation of the percentage of votes 'For' or 'Against' a resolution.
3. Resolutions 17 to 20 are Special Resolutions.
4. At the close of business on Tuesday, 23 April 2024 the total number of ordinary shares in issue, excluding treasury shares, was 1,877,074,442.
5. The full text of the resolutions can be found in the Notice of Annual General Meeting, which is available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism and on the Company's website at www.relx.com.
6. In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2, a copy of the resolutions passed, other than resolutions concerning ordinary business, will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.