William Hill PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • May 9, 2013

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William Hill PLC

09 May 2013

William Hill PLC

AGM statement

9 May 2013

William Hill PLC (LSE: WMH) announces the results of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held today, Thursday, 9 May, at 11.00 am at the Cavendish Conference Centre, 22 Duchess Mews, London W1G 9DT. All resolutions as set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 19 March 2013 were duly passed on a show of hands. The final proxy voting position by resolution is shown below. Any proxy votes which are at the discretion of the Chairman have been included in the "In Favour" total.

Resolution		In Favour	Against	Withheld	Percentage in favour
1	Annual Report	614,152,735	7,574,605	239,874	98.78%
2	Remuneration Report	602,620,148	17,904,025	1,443,528	97.11%
3	Final Dividend	621,373,551	10,341	582,551	100.00%
4	Re-appoint Gareth Davis	610,768,500	7,960,787	3,246,127	98.71%
5	Re-appoint Ralph Topping	620,478,991	1,210,754	285,669	99.81%
6	Re-appoint Neil Cooper	620,530,441	1,151,908	293,065	99.81%
7	Re-appoint David Edmonds	619,605,349	2,039,152	330,913	99.67%
8	Re-appoint Georgina Harvey	620,647,645	1,005,899	321,870	99.84%
9	Re-appoint Ashley Highfield	613,446,433	2,751,633	5,777,347	99.55%
10	Re-appoint David Lowden	616,798,557	1,905,534	3,271,323	99.69%
11	Re-appoint Imelda Walsh	619,694,627	1,960,677	319,025	99.68%
12	Re-appoint Auditors	602,642,619	18,003,121	1,321,961	97.10%
13	Auditors' Remuneration	606,521,030	14,145,660	1,297,141	97.72%
14	Political Donations & Expenditure	613,921,727	5,363,906	2,673,779	99.13%
15	Allot Shares	605,276,676	15,751,952	932,120	97.46%
16	Establish schedules to the International Plan	621,349,916	262,319	363,179	99.96%
17	Allot Equity Securities for Cash	621,250,564	352,832	372,018	99.94%
18	Market Purchases of Ordinary Shares	614,555,400	1,700,567	5,719,446	99.72%
19	General Meeting	584,460,329	37,231,888	283,197	94.01%
20	Amend Articles of Association	621,558,510	57,658	357,024	99.99%

A copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting and the proxy figures is being uploaded today to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for viewing.

The proxy figures for the resolutions will also be displayed on the corporate website www.williamhillplc.com.

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Enquiries:

William Hill PLC

Lyndsay Wright, Director of IR

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8918 3614

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Simon Sporborg

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

About William Hill PLC

William Hill, The Home of Betting, is one of the world's leading betting and gaming companies, employing more than 17,000 people. Founded in 1934, it is now the UK's largest bookmaker with around 2,400 licensed betting offices that provide betting opportunities on a wide range of sporting and non-sporting events, gaming on machines and numbers-based products including lotteries. William Hill Online (www.williamhill.com) is one of Europe's leading online betting and gaming businesses, providing customers with the opportunity to access William Hill's products online, through their mobile, by telephone and by text services. William Hill US was established in June 2012 and provides land-based and mobile sports betting services in Nevada, and is the exclusive risk manager for the State of Delaware's sports lottery. The Group acquired the Sportingbet Australia business in March 2013, which is one of the leading online corporate bookmakers in Australia, offerings sports betting products online, by telephone and via mobile devices. William Hill PLC is listed on the London Stock Exchange and became part of the FTSE100 in May 2013. The Group generates revenues of over £1.2bn a year.

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