William Hill PLC

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • May 8, 2014

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William Hill PLC

08 May 2014

WILLIAM HILL PLC

AGM STATEMENT

8 May 2014

William Hill PLC (LSE:WMH) announces the results of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held today, Thursday 8 May 2014 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 3 March 2014 were duly passed on a show of hands.  Each resolution was also supported by proxy votes received and 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 "For" total.

Resolution		For	%	Against	%	Withheld
1	To receive the annual report and accounts	603,739,019	99.96	232,178	0.04	241,937
2	To approve the directors' remuneration policy	590,046,765	97.72	13,749,825	2.28	417,595
3	To approve the annual report on directors' remuneration	592,159,592	99.27	4,371,674	0.73	7,682,090
4	To declare a final dividend	603,981,006	100	14,769	0.00	220,281
5	To elect Sir Roy Gardner	603,502,603	99.94	389,138	0.06	324,315
6	To re-elect Gareth Davis	573,760,393	95.14	29,320,647	4.86	1,135,016
7	To re-elect Ralph Topping	602,954,974	99.84	962,211	0.16	298,871
8	To re-elect Neil Cooper	602,987,166	99.85	923,991	0.15	304,899
9	To re-elect Georgina Harvey	602,949,128	99.84	962,004	0.16	304,924
10	To re-elect Ashley Highfield	602,546,086	99.77	1,371,477	0.23	298,493
11	To re-elect David Lowden	602,664,559	99.79	1,246,114	0.21	305,383
12	To re-elect Imelda Walsh	602,557,630	99.78	1,354,875	0.22	303,518
13	To re-appoint the Auditors	591,575,495	98.11	11,410,733	1.89	1,229,795
14	To authorise the directors to determine the auditors' remuneration	602,887,308	99.83	1,025,813	0.17	300,732
15	Authority for political donations and political expenditure	600,977,791	99.54	2,771,081	0.46	458,579
16	Authority to allot shares	519,073,151	85.96	84,808,276	14.04	333,001
17	To authorise the directors to establish the William Hill 2014 Performance Share Plan	572,122,177	97.47	14,878,605	2.53	17,215,274
18	To authorise the directors to establish schedules to or further share plans based on the William Hill 2014 Performance Share Plan	590,864,938	97.86	12,937,179	2.14	412,163
19	Authority to disapply pre-emption rights	602,267,343	99.74	1,563,926	0.26	376,287
20	Authority to purchase own shares	603,722,515	99.96	247,331	0.04	245,668
21	Notice of General Meeting	568,216,615	94.08	35,755,171	5.92	244,270

A copy of the resolutions passed at the meeting, other than ordinary business, is being uploaded today to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for viewing at  www.morningstar.com.

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

Enquiries:

William Hill PLC

Lyndsay Wright, Director of IR

Tel: +44 (0) 20 8918 3614

Brunswick Group

Simon Sporborg

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7404 5959

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