Voting Results from Ford Motor Company's 2012 Annual Meeting of Shareholders

 

Voting results indicate that a total of 3,154,667,973 shares of common stock and 70,852,076 shares of Class B Stock with a total aggregate of 5,651,353,427 votes were represented in person or by proxy at the annual meeting. These shares represented 90.5% of all the votes that could have been cast at the annual meeting.

 

Proposal 1. Election of Directors

 

Directors Elected:

 

Proposal 2. The proposal to ratify the selection of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the independent registered public accounting firm was approved.

 

Total Votes Cast:     5,651,332,427          

For:                             99.0%

Against:                      1.0%

Abstain:                      0.3%

Proposal 3. The non-binding shareholder advisory vote to approve the compensation of the Named Executives was approved.

 

Total Votes Cast:     4,420,911,291          

For:                             96.6%

Against:                     3.4%

Abstain:                     0.6%

Proposal 4. The proposal relating to the adoption of cumulative voting for the election of directors was rejected.

 

Total Votes Cast:     4,420,910,797          

For:                             13.7%

Against:                     86.3%

Abstain:                     0.5%

Proposal 5. The proposal relating to consideration of a recapitalization plan to provide that all of the Company's outstanding stock have one vote per share was rejected.

Total Votes Cast:     4,420,910,286          

For:                             29.5%

Against:                     70.5%

Abstain:                     0.5%

Proposal 6. The proposal requesting the Board to allow holders of 10% of outstanding common stock to call special meetings of shareholders was rejected.

 

Total Votes Cast:     4,420,906,575          

For:                            19.2%

Against:                     80.8%

Abstain:                     0.4%

 

 

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