23 May 2019 16:54
23 May 2019
EnQuest PLC ("EnQuest" or the "Company")
Voting results of the Annual General Meeting held on 23 May 2019
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 1,694,406,148.
Resolution | For * | % | Against | % | Withheld ** | |
1
| Annual Report & Accounts 2018 | 743,112,851 | 99.99 | 104,621 | 0.01 | 23,709,667 |
2
| Re-election of Amjad Bseisu | 754,039,454 | 98.33 | 12,832,879 | 1.67 | 54,807 |
3
| Re-election of Jonathan Swinney | 765,403,654 | 99.80 | 1,518,328 | 0.20 | 5,158 |
4
| Re-election of Jock Lennox | 724,233,307 | 97.44 | 19,027,272 | 2.56 | 23,666,560 |
5
| Re-election of Helmut Langanger | 755,173,291 | 98.47 | 11,743,569 | 1.53 | 10,279 |
6
| Re-election of Laurie Fitch | 682,332,899 | 89.11 | 83,360,324 | 10.89 | 1,233,915 |
7
| Re-election of Philip Holland | 766,610,749 | 99.96 | 306,112 | 0.04 | 10,279 |
8
| Re-election of Carl Hughes | 765,552,017 | 99.82 | 1,364,844 | 0.18 | 10,279 |
9
| Re-election of John Winterman | 766,567,892 | 99.95 | 348,969 | 0.05 | 10,279 |
10 | Election of Howard Paver | 766,864,136 | 99.99 | 52,725 | 0.01 | 10,279 |
11 | Re-appointment of auditor | 760,495,162 | 99.59 | 3,153,236 | 0.41 | 3,278,742 |
12 | Authority to set auditor remuneration | 764,554,150 | 99.69 | 2,341,495 | 0.31 | 31,495 |
13 | Directors' Remuneration Report | 621,494,781 | 81.39 | 142,136,742 | 18.61 | 3,295,616 |
14 | Political Donations | 761,311,982 | 99.27 | 5,597,106 | 0.73 | 18,052 |
15 | Authority to allot shares | 679,271,738 | 89.06 | 83,428,745 | 10.94 | 4,226,657 |
16*** | Disapplication of pre-emption rights | 758,582,315 | 99.46 | 4,118,168 | 0.54 | 4,226,657 |
17*** | Further disapplication of pre-emption rights | 645,585,728 | 84.64 | 117,114,754 | 15.36 | 4,226,657 |
18*** | Authority to purchase own shares | 759,212,384 | 99.03 | 7,440,020 | 0.97 | 274,735 |
* 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 www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm
ENDS
For further information please contact:
EnQuest PLC Tel: +44 (0)20 7925 4900
Stefan Ricketts (Company Secretary)
Enquest (ENQ)