abrdn Equity Income Trust plc

Declaration of Voting Results & Voting Rights Announcements • Feb 2, 2023

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abrdn Equity Income Trust plc

02 February 2023

abrdn EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 21380015XPT7BZISSQ74

2 February 2023

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of abrdn Equity Income Trust plc (the "Company") held on Thursday, 2 February 2023, all the Resolutions as set out in full in the Notice of Meeting included within the Company's Annual Report for the year ended 30 September 2022, available on the Company's website www.abrdnequityincometrust.com*, were duly passed on a show of hands.

As set out in the Company's Annual Report to 30 September 2022, Mr White retired from the Board immediately following the Annual General Meeting and was succeeded by Ms Patel as Chair. 

Ms Patel said "The Board wishes to formally thank Mr White for his service to the Board as a Director since 2013, and as Chairman since 2021.  During Mr White's tenure the Company's annual dividend has increased from 13.4 pence per share paid in 2013 to the 22.7 pence per share paid last year." 

Mr Little will succeed Ms Patel as Chair of the Audit Committee with immediate effect.

The total number of proxy votes lodged was as follows:

	For and Discretionary		Against		Votes	Total Votes
Resolution	No. of	% of	No. of	% of	Withheld	(excluding Votes Withheld)
Number	Votes	Votes Cast	Votes	Votes Cast
1. Approve Directors' Report and Financial Statements	5,450,683	99.92	4,311	0.08	35,884	5,454,994
2. Approve Directors' Remuneration Report	5,247,338	96.84	171,260	3.16	68,680	5,418,598
3. Approve Directors' Remuneration Policy	5,271,576	97.34	143,809	2.66	75,493	5,415,385
4. Approve Dividend Policy	5,440,654	99.67	17,811	0.33	32,413	5,458,465
5.  Approve aggregate annual fees payable to Directors.	5,378,362	98.69	71,271	1.31	41,245	5,449,633
6. Re-elect Ms C.M. Hitch	5,413,157	98.88	61,455	1.12	16,266	5,474,612
7. Re-elect Ms S. Patel	5,411,942	98.86	62,670	1.14	16,266	5,474,612
8. Re-elect Mr J. J. Tigue	5,383,640	98.72	69,971	1.28	37,266	5,453,611
9. Elect Mr M. Little	5,399,582	99.02	53,616	0.98	34,340	5,453,198
10. Re-appoint KPMG LLP as Auditor	5,380,059	98.59	76,928	1.41	30,551	5,456,987
11. Remuneration of the Auditor	5,401,958	99.20	43,351	0.80	42,229	5,445,309
12. Allotment of shares	5,381,909	98.94	57,435	1.06	48,194	5,439,344
13. Disapply  pre-emption rights	5,255,065	97.15	154,012	2.85	78,461	5,409,077
14. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	5,425,666	99.01	54,282	0.99	7,590	5,479,948
15. Notice of General Meetings	5,229,410	95.60	240,595	4.40	17,533	5,470,005

Copies of the resolutions passed under special business will shortly be submitted to the National Storage Mechanism and will be available for inspection at: https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism*.

*Neither the NSM website nor the Company's website nor the content of any website accessible from hyperlinks on those websites (or any other website) is (or is deemed to be) incorporated into, or forms (or is deemed to form) part of this announcement.

2 February 2023

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