abrdn Equity Income Trust plc

AGM Information • Feb 20, 2024

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ABRDN EQUITY INCOME TRUST PLC

Legal Entity Identifier (LEI): 21380015XPT7BZISSQ74

20 February 2024

Result of Annual General Meeting

At the Annual General Meeting of abrdn Equity Income Trust plc (the “Company”) held on Tuesday, 20 February 2024, 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 2023, 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 2023, Mr Tigue retired from the Board immediately after the Annual General Meeting.

Ms Patel said “The Board wishes to formally thank Mr Tigue for his service to the Board as a Director since 2014, and as Senior Independent Director since 2016.”

Ms Hitch will take on the role of Senior Independent Director with immediate effect and Mr Timberlake will take on the role of Chair of the Remuneration & Management Engagement 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	5,810,213	99.8	11,793	0.2	44,180	5,822,006
2. Approve Directors’ Remuneration Report	5,539,683	95.7	246,332	4.3	80,171	5,786,015
3. Approve Dividend Policy	5,791,836	99.5	26,863	0.5	47,487	5,818,699
4. Re-elect Ms C.M. Hitch	5,646,905	97.8	126,366	2.2	92,915	5,773,271
5. Re-elect Mr M. Little	5,638,215	98.2	103,477	1.8	124,494	5,741,692
6. Re-elect Ms S. Patel	5,644,964	97.8	128,368	2.2	92,854	5,773,332
7. Elect Mr N. Timberlake	5,661,828	98.6	79,152	1.4	125,206	5,740,980
8. Appoint Johnston Carmichael LLP as Auditor	5,700,418	99.4	35,986	0.6	129,782	5,736,404
9. Remuneration of the Auditor	5,700,540	99.0	57,879	1.0	107,767	5,758,419
10. Allotment of shares	5,724,742	98.0	114,447	2.0	26,997	5,839,189
11. Disapply pre-emption rights	5,607,929	96.6	200,165	3.4	58,092	5,808,094
12. Authorise market purchases of ordinary shares	5,771,791	98.9	65,258	1.1	29,137	5,837,049
13. Notice of General Meetings	5,653,778	97.7	132,929	2.3	79,479	5,786,707

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.