Royal Bank of Canada announces election of directors

TORONTO, April 4, 2019 /CNW/ - Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) announced today that the nominees listed in the Management Proxy Circular dated February 11, 2019, were elected as directors of RBC. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors, held at its Annual Meeting of Common Shareholders today in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are set out below.

Each of the following 12 nominees was elected as a Director.

Nominee	Votes For	% For	Votes Withheld	% Withheld
Andrew A. Chisholm	724,104,621	99.80%	1,475,882	0.20%
Jacynthe Côté	724,157,713	99.80%	1,422,791	0.20%
Toos N. Daruvala	723,866,297	99.76%	1,714,207	0.24%
David F. Denison	723,571,932	99.72%	2,008,572	0.28%
Alice D. Laberge	712,076,320	98.14%	13,504,184	1.86%
Michael H. McCain	684,559,595	94.35%	41,020,909	5.65%
David McKay	724,432,989	99.84%	1,147,514	0.16%
Heather Munroe-Blum	723,588,866	99.73%	1,989,988	0.27%
Kathleen Taylor	714,562,420	98.48%	11,018,084	1.52%
Bridget A. van Kralingen	722,623,915	99.59%	2,956,589	0.41%
Thierry Vandal	722,698,831	99.60%	2,881,673	0.40%
Jeffery Yabuki	722,433,873	99.57%	3,146,631	0.43%

 

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting will be available shortly at http://www.rbc.com/investorrelations/annual-meeting-reports.html and will be filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About RBC
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SOURCE Royal Bank of Canada

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