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Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Jul 23, 2015

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Electrocomponents PLC

23 July 2015

Electrocomponents Plc

(the Company)

Results of Annual General Meeting

Electrocomponents Plc announces that all of the resolutions set out in the Notice of Meeting dated 16 June 2015 were passed on a show of hands by shareholders at today's Annual General Meeting. Resolutions 15, 16 and 17 were passed as Special Resolutions.

Details of the proxy votes received in advance of the meeting are set out below and can be found on the Company's website at http://www.electrocomponents.com/investor-centre/corporate-governance/agm   

Resolution		Votes  For (incl. Chairman's discretion)	% For (incl. Chairman's discretion)	Votes Against	% Against	Total votes validly cast	Votes Withheld*
1.	To receive Report & Accounts for 2015	385,321,573	100.00	848	0.00	385,322,421	20,450
2.	To approve the Statement by the Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and the Annual Report on Remuneration	384,475,816	99.79	812,749	0.21	385,288,565	54,306
3.	To declare a final Dividend for 2015	385,342,871	100.00	0	0.00	385,342,871	0
4.	To elect Bertrand Bodson	385,310,414	99.99	25,861	0.01	385,336,275	6,596
5.	To elect Lindsley Ruth	385,087,142	99.94	249,606	0.06	385,336,748	6,123
6.	To re-elect Simon Boddie	385,052,214	99.93	260,492	0.07	385,312,706	30,165
7.	To re-elect Karen Guerra	385,067,187	99.93	271,653	0.07	385,338,840	4,031
8.	To re-elect Paul Hollingworth	385,089,777	99.94	246,764	0.06	385,336,541	6,330
9.	To re-elect Peter Johnson	384,988,748	99.91	347,793	0.09	385,336,541	6,330
10.	To re-elect John  Pattullo	385,082,983	99.94	248,275	0.06	385,331,258	11,613
11.	To re-elect Rupert Soames	385,067,989	99.93	263,552	0.07	385,331,541	11,330
12.	To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as auditor	385,321,764	100.00	12,803	0.00	385,334,567	8,304
13.	To authorise Directors to agree remuneration of the auditor	385,323,533	100.00	13,997	0.00	385,337,530	5,341
14.	Renewal of the Directors' authority to allot shares	385,273,294	99.99	51,228	0.01	385,324,522	18,349
15.	Renewal of  the Directors' authority to disapply pre‑emption rights	372,247,087	96.61	13,059,050	3.39	385,306,137	36,734
16.	Renewal of the Directors' authority for purchase by Company of own shares	377,552,269	97.98	7,781,799	2.02	385,334,068	8,803
17.	Notice Period for General Meetings	355,566,909	92.28	29,759,953	7.72	385,326,862	16,009

* A "vote withheld" is not a vote in law and will not be counted in the calculation of the proportion of votes "for" or "against" a resolution, the total votes validly cast or the calculation of the proportion of issued share capital voted.

In accordance with Listing Rule 9.6.2., a copy of the Resolutions relating to Special Business has been submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM. 

Full details of all the Resolutions passed, together with explanatory notes, are set out in the Notice of AGM previously submitted to the National Storage Mechanism at http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/NSM and on the Company's website at http://www.electrocomponents.com/investor-centre/annual-reports.

The total number of shares in issue at 6pm on Wednesday, 22 July 2015 was 439,820,437 ordinary shares in the Company. A total of 87.61% of the share capital was voted.

IAN HASLEGRAVE

Company Secretary

23 July 2015

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International Management Centre, 8050 Oxford Business Park North, Oxford OX4 2HW

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www.electrocomponents.com 

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