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proxyvotesnow.com shows how funds and asset managers voted at U.S. company shareholder meetings, beside the result the company itself reported.
It joins two SEC filings. On Form N-PX, funds and institutional managers disclose how they voted. On Form 8-K, under Item 5.07, a company reports the result of its meeting. For each ballot item, a company page shows the reporting funds’ votes and, where an 8-K has been matched, the official tally, with a link to each filing on SEC EDGAR. Ownership figures from Forms 13F, 13D and 13G and the proxy statement are shown beside them.
Manager pages show each asset manager’s record for a season: how often it voted against the board on the board’s own proposals, and how often it backed environmental and social proposals that shareholders put on the ballot.
The voting policies section collects the proxy-voting guidelines that asset managers publish, with each annual edition kept as a PDF, and a cross-manager analysis of how the 2026 policies changed.
Votes, official results and ownership come from public filings on SEC EDGAR. Voting policies are the documents the managers publish on their own websites. The methodology below explains how each figure is derived, and the coverage page shows, season by season, how many meetings have a matched official result.
New N-PX filings are collected every week, on Saturday night (UTC). New 8-K results and share counts are collected every Sunday, and company pages are rebuilt from them over the following days. Schedule 13D filings are collected daily. N-PX filings for a season that ends on June 30 are due by August 31, so most of a season’s fund votes arrive in September, and late filings keep arriving after that.
Short explainers on how shareholder votes are counted and what the SEC filings behind this site show.
Corrections to published figures and statements are listed, with dates, in the corrections log. Questions, and figures that do not match the filing they cite, go to data@proxyvotesnow.com.
How each figure on the site is derived, so that you can check it.
Form N-PX is the annual SEC filing in which registered funds disclose how they voted on every ballot item at every company they held. Institutional investment managers also file it, to report their executive-pay votes. The per-fund and per-manager votes on this site are those filings, as filed.
N-PX does not follow the calendar year. Each filing covers meetings held from July 1 to June 30 and is due by August 31. A year on this site is therefore a proxy season: “2026” means the 2025–2026 season, that is, meetings from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026. A meeting held in the autumn of 2025 is in the 2026 season, not 2025.
N-PX is not a census of shareholders. It covers the institutions required to file it. Individuals, most foreign holders, insiders and many other investors do not file. A total of fund votes is the position of the reporting funds only. It is never the meeting result, and the site does not present it as one.
A U.S. public company reports the outcome of a shareholder meeting on Form 8-K under Item 5.07. Where this site shows an official tally for a ballot item, the figures were read from that filing, and the result links to the filing on SEC EDGAR so you can compare the two directly.
A company is identified by the issuer number in its CUSIP, the first six characters of the security identifier that fund filers report, not by its name. An 8-K is not used for a company when the SEC registrant that filed it is, by its current and former registered names, a different company from the issuer of that security. The same check applies to the share counts in section 5. Companies that report to the SEC as foreign private issuers file no Form 8-K, so their pages usually show no official result. Some companies incorporated abroad, such as TE Connectivity, file 8-Ks like U.S. companies and are covered.
Mistyped CUSIPs. Some filers report a CUSIP that cannot be right: it fails the check digit every CUSIP carries, or a spreadsheet has dropped its leading zeros (Amazon’s 023135106 filed as 23135106). We read such a value as another security only when one small slip explains it — restoring one or two leading zeros, changing one character, or swapping two neighbouring characters — and when exactly one security that already appears often in the data, reached that way, held a meeting on the same date. Anything else is left as filed. The CUSIP the filer reported is kept unchanged; the correction is stored beside it.
Where no 8-K has been matched to a meeting, the page says so and shows only the reporting funds’ own total, labelled as fund support with no official result. No outcome is stated in that case.
The 8-Ks are found in two ways: by searching SEC EDGAR’s full-text index, week by week, for every report filed under Item 5.07 since June 2023, and from the company’s own list of filings. Each week of filings is searched again until the search has completed for it. An amended report (8-K/A) for the same meeting is kept beside the original.
Some reports set out their figures in a way that is not read as a table at first: the whole report laid out as one page-wide table, the results written as lines such as “For: 44,264,494” under each nominee, or the results placed in an exhibit attached to the 8-K. Such a report is read a second time in that layout. The result is used only when every item read has a vote for and a vote against or withheld, and the items read account for at least four-fifths of the vote figures in the report; otherwise the meeting is shown with no official result rather than with part of one. Results read from an exhibit link to the exhibit. An 8-K that another meeting of the same company already cites is not used again.
One entry per ballot item. Fund filers describe the same ballot item in different words. Where a meeting has a matched 8-K, each item in the company’s tally is shown once, with its official result. A fund-reported description is joined to an item only on evidence: the same text, the same director nominee, or a match to that item’s row of the tally. A smaller description matched to a row that already has one is listed under that item with its own fund figures, and is not added into them. Nothing is joined because two descriptions merely read alike.
A description that matches no row of the tally, and that far fewer managers reported than the items on the ballot (under a quarter of a typical item at that meeting), is most likely one of those items in other words. Such descriptions are not shown on the company page; they are kept, with their own figures, in the page’s data download (CSV), marked unreconciled, together with lines reported under a date on which no meeting is on file. They are not counted in the number of items, in the page’s summary of its items or in any comparison between items. Nor are they counted in the page’s totals of asset managers and fund votes, which count only the items shown and the descriptions listed under them. A description that many managers reported but that matches no row is shown as an item of its own, with no official result: usually the tally as read here is missing that item.
A season’s filings sometimes also report a meeting held outside its July 1 to June 30 window. Those lines are not shown on that season’s page and are not counted in its number of items; the page says how many there were and which season the meeting belongs to. They are not in its totals of asset managers and fund votes either.
Status labels. Each item on a company page carries one label saying how far its result has been checked against the company’s own filing:
A second label, Fund totals may overlap, is added where the item’s fund votes come from reports that can cover the same shares: fund reports together with institutional-manager reports, or fund shares that add up to more than the shares outstanding or the votes cast at the meeting. No combined fund share total is shown for such an item. The label concerns the funds’ figures only; an official result is not affected. Labels describe what is on the page; they change no figure.
A few companies report Item 5.07 in percentages instead of vote counts. Those figures are shown as the company published them, because the filing does not always say what the percentage is a percentage of.
How many meetings have a matched 8-K, season by season, is on the coverage page.
Support = FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST) Captioned “of votes cast” wherever it appears.
This is the basis most companies and most press coverage use, but it is not the only one. The same vote can be quoted as a share of votes cast, of shares present, or of shares outstanding, and the three can differ widely. If a figure here disagrees with one you have seen elsewhere, check the denominator first. A figure on this site that is a share of shares outstanding is labelled as such.
On the asset manager pages. Every figure is a count of ballot items, one fund’s vote on one proposal at one meeting, never of shares.
An outcome is shown as Approved or Not approved only where the 8-K itself says so: in the item’s heading (“The appointment of KPMG LLP ... was ratified”), in the sentence that follows its tally (“Based on the votes set forth above, the proposal was not approved”), or in a list at the top of the report (“Shareholders approved Proposals 1 through 4”). The sentence it was read from is kept with the result. A sentence about another item, or one that names several items without saying which outcome is which, is not used.
Where the filing gives only vote counts, no outcome is stated. The page says whether FOR was more than half of the votes cast, which is arithmetic, not the result.
A simple majority of votes cast is not always the legal standard. Some items need a supermajority, or a majority of all shares outstanding, or a separate vote of each share class, and director elections may be decided by plurality. Where a filing says an item was not approved although FOR was more than half of the votes cast, the page shows the filing’s word beside the tally. Where the filing states the standard that applied, the page quotes it. Where it does not, and the item is of a kind that often needs more than a majority of votes cast (a charter or bylaw amendment, a merger, an increase in authorised shares), the page notes that a stricter requirement may have applied; that note is the site’s inference, not the filing’s. Where the filing’s word and its own numbers cannot both be right and the filing gives no reason, both are shown and the disagreement is marked; the site does not choose between them.
In a director election the site records “elected” or “not elected” only where the filing says so, including the list of winners in a contested election. A nominee who received less than a majority of votes cast under a resignation policy is neither, unless the filing says which. Where the filing names as many winners as it says there were seats (“Election of four directors ... A, B, C and D were elected”), the other nominees are recorded as not elected.
Preliminary and final results. Some companies first file preliminary results, for example “the estimated preliminary voting results reported by the Company’s proxy solicitor”, and later file the final count in an amended 8-K (8-K/A). Where the final 8-K/A is on file, its figures are used and the page names the 8-K/A as the source. Where only the preliminary filing exists, its figures are kept and recorded as preliminary, as the filing itself describes them.
Results at a glance and material dissent. The top of each company page summarises the meeting from the company’s own Form 8-K: how many items it reports, and how many it states as approved, elected, not approved or not elected; the company’s items it reports as not approved or not elected; and the items with material dissent. An item has material dissent when its support on the 8-K tally (FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST), or FOR ÷ (FOR + WITHHELD) on a withhold ballot, rounded as the page prints it) is under 80% for a director nominee, under 70% for say-on-pay, under 80% for any other item the board put forward, or over 50% for a shareholder proposal. The results screens use the same lines. In a contested election the nominees are listed together, each marked as the company’s or a shareholder’s nominee. Votes on how often to hold say-on-pay are not judged. The funds’ votes reported on Form N-PX cover only some of the shareholders and are never used for this, so a meeting with no 8-K tally on file gets no dissent judgement.
Holder and ownership figures come from three kinds of filing, and they do not measure the same thing. Each row on a company page names the form it came from.
None of these is shares voted. Company pages do not yet show each row’s as-of date, and some rows come from filings dated after the meeting, so read them as the latest disclosures held for that season, not as positions on the meeting date. Dating each row and choosing the disclosure nearest before the meeting is planned.
Percentages of a company are computed against a share count for the same meeting year as the holding, taken from the company’s own SEC filings. Where no reliable share count is available, no percentage is shown. A season can hold a second meeting in another calendar year (a special meeting, or a late report of an earlier one); its items are measured against that year’s own share count, and where none is on file no comparison with shares outstanding is shown for them.
To check an official result, open the 8-K linked beside it and find Item 5.07. The vote counts on this site should match the filing exactly, and the support percentage is the arithmetic in section 3 applied to those counts.
To cite a figure, cite the page URL together with the SEC filing it names, with the filing’s form type and date. Cite the season as a range (for example “the 2025–2026 proxy season”) so that a reader does not take it for a calendar year. For a fund vote, the primary source is that filer’s Form N-PX on SEC EDGAR.
Company pages are rebuilt periodically and the current season keeps changing as late filings arrive, so note the date you retrieved a figure.
Downloads. Each company page offers its data as two CSV files. One has a row per ballot item: the company’s Form 8-K tally, the outcome in the filing’s own words, the support percentage with the two numbers it is computed from, the stated voting standard, and the summed fund votes. The other has a row per asset manager per item: shares by direction, the number of funds, and the vote values exactly as filed. Every row links its SEC filing. The column guide is at company-csv-README.txt.
Questions, corrections and feedback are welcome at data@proxyvotesnow.com.
If a figure on this site does not match the SEC filing it cites, please send the page address and the filing, and say which number differs. The filing is the authority, and a reported mismatch is the most useful thing a reader can send.
Corrections to published figures and statements are listed, with their dates and the pages they affected, in the corrections log.