WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC. 2023-2024 Proxy Voting Records

Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Alan S. Armstrong

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Alan S. Armstrong”): 995,377,723 for, 8,743,706 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 99.1% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 448,445,770 for, 298,868 against, 44,642 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Carri A. Lockhart

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Carri A. Lockhart”): 1,000,474,639 for, 3,623,052 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 99.6% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 448,737,452 for, 7,186 against, 44,643 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Jesse J. Tyson

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Jesse J. Tyson”): 972,444,283 for, 31,626,857 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 97% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 447,257,793 for, 1,486,844 against, 44,644 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Michael A. Creel

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Michael A. Creel”): 995,282,613 for, 8,841,244 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 99.1% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 448,445,772 for, 298,867 against, 44,642 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Murray D. Smith

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Murray D. Smith”): 981,601,900 for, 22,518,177 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 98% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 448,216,360 for, 528,279 against, 44,642 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Peter A. Ragauss

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Peter A. Ragauss”): 969,668,183 for, 34,446,439 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 97% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 447,116,345 for, 1,628,292 against, 44,643 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Richard E. Muncrief

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Richard E. Muncrief”): 995,046,059 for, 9,052,074 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 99.0% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 448,445,768 for, 298,870 against, 44,643 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Rose M. Robeson

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Rose M. Robeson”): 972,047,969 for, 32,067,506 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 97% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 432,224,192 for, 16,520,446 against, 44,643 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Scott D. Sheffield

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Scott D. Sheffield”): 995,229,140 for, 8,884,394 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 99.1% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 448,737,315 for, 7,323 against, 44,643 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Stacey H. Dore

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Stacey H. Doré”): 945,931,197 for, 58,178,770 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 94% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 446,801,203 for, 1,295,911 against, 44,643 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: Stephen W. Bergstrom

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: Stephen W. Bergstrom”): 965,179,738 for, 38,952,491 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 96% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 447,116,231 for, 1,628,407 against, 44,642 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Elect 12 Director Nominees for a One-Year Term: William H. Spence

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“Elect Director: William H. Spence”): 957,839,190 for, 46,272,807 against, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). FOR was more than half of the votes cast. Whether the item passed is for the filing to say; its statement has not been read for this item.

Reported outcome: Elected, in the filing’s own words: “Each of the director nominees was elected to the Company's Board of Directors to serve a one-year term expiring at the Company's next annual meeting of stockholders.”
Support: 95% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 446,584,368 for, 2,160,270 against, 44,643 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Approve the Adoption of the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of The Williams Companies, Inc. to Limit the Liability of Certain Officers as Permitted by Law.

The 188 asset managers below reported 390,829,927 for, 56,725,762 against, 1 withheld, 37,488 abstained. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

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Description as filed by funds: Amend Certificate of Incorporation to Limit the Liability of Certain Officers

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“4. Although more than 5 times more stockholders voted FOR the proposal to amend our Certificate of Incorporation rather than AGAINST it, the proposal did not receive 75% of the total outstanding shares voting FOR.”): 843,647,752 for, 159,954,113 against — failed, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07). This item required more than a simple majority of votes cast — see the filing.

Reported outcome: Not approved, in the filing’s own words: “Accordingly, the proposal was not approved, and the Company's existing Certificate of Incorporation will remain in effect.”
Not approved: the filing states that this item needed more than a majority of the votes cast.
Support: 84% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 6 asset managers below reported 281,225 for, 7,166 abstained.

Description as filed by funds: Approve, on an Advisory Basis, the Compensation of our Named Executive Officers.

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“2. Stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers.”): 962,271,988 for, 39,138,396 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Stockholders approved, on an advisory basis, the compensation of our named executive officers.”
Support: 96% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

Also reported under other wordings, matched to the same row of WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s official tally and shown with their own fund figures; their managers are not in the figures or the table on this card: “Say on pay” (4 managers, 860,575 for); “Compensation” (2 managers, 113 for).

Fund voting reports and institutional-manager reports both cover this item. An institutional manager can report shares that a fund it advises also reports, so the two are shown separately below and never added together, and their sum is not shown (fund and manager reports combined may count the same shares twice).

Fund voting reports, all 184 managers: 445,738,872 for, 3,027,722 against, 1 withheld, 44,684 abstained. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Institutional-manager reports, all 748 managers: 552,173,726 for, 28,540,233 against, 16,211 withheld, 166,654 abstained, 60,166 not voted, 370,000 unknown. Showing the 25 largest; see all in the interactive database.

Description as filed by funds: Ratify the Selection of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2024.

WILLIAMS COMPANIES INC.’s own tally for this item (“3. Ernst and Young LLP was ratified as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024.”): 1,070,333,386 for, 42,256,251 against — passed, per its Form 8-K filed May 3, 2024 (Item 5.07).

Reported outcome: Approved, in the filing’s own words: “Ernst and Young LLP was ratified as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2024.”
Support: 96% of votes cast — FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST); abstentions and broker non-votes are excluded.

The 193 asset managers below reported 448,261,144 for, 2,348,762 against, 44,636 abstained.

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Description as filed by funds: Vote on a Stockholder Proposal Requesting the Company Issue a Report Assessing Policy Options Related to Venting and Flaring, if Properly Presented at the Annual Meeting.

The 100 asset managers below reported 361,747 for, 11,097,183 against, 10,519 withheld, 70,403,095 abstained, 673,018 not voted, 736,686 unknown. The figure above is FOR ÷ (FOR + AGAINST + WITHHELD) of the shares these managers voted; abstained and unvoted shares are in neither half, and these managers are a subset of all shareholders, not the meeting result.

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