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Eaton Vance proxy voting record, 2024-2025

Eaton Vance reported 85,755 proxy votes on Form N-PX for the 2025 season. On the 59,746 ballot items the board itself put forward — directors, pay, the auditor, capital — it voted FOR 79.5% of the time. On the 1,019 environmental and social proposals put on the ballot by shareholders, it voted FOR 31.0% of the time.

2023-20242024-20252025-2026

79.5%Voted for board proposals
31.0%Backed E&S proposals
82,203Ballot items
47,460Proposals
3,921Issuers
35Funds / accounts

On the board’s own proposals

79.5% FOR of 59,746 fund votes on board proposals in 2024-2025: directors, pay, auditor, capital.

79.5% FOR

FOR 47,514 AGAINST 9,347 Abstained or withheld 2,885

How we count these

On proposals shareholders put on the ballot

31.0% FOR of 1,019 fund votes on environmental and social proposals shareholders put on the ballot. The board opposed 1,019.

31.0% FOR AGAINST

FOR 316 AGAINST 703 Abstained 0

See the 316 it backed →

How we count these

By proposal type

A single “voted with management” figure makes every manager look the same: director elections are most of the volume and nearly everyone votes FOR them. The record is therefore reported per category, using the category the filer itself put on each item in its N-PX.

Eaton Vance, 2024-2025. “Decided” is FOR + AGAINST, the denominator of the two percentage columns; abstentions and withheld votes are shown separately and are never inside a percentage. Counted in ballot items — one fund’s vote on one proposal at one meeting — never in shares.
Proposal type	Put on the ballot by	Items	Decided	Voted FOR	Voted AGAINST	Abstained / withheld
Director Elections	Board (572 inferred)	33,621	30,619	80.6%	19.4%	2,856
Director Elections	Shareholders (74 inferred)	76	76	21.1%	78.9%	0
Corporate Governance	Board	20,684	20,538	90.6%	9.4%	128
Corporate Governance	Shareholders (6 inferred)	958	951	54.2%	45.8%	7
Capital Structure	Board (3 inferred)	9,987	9,982	88.7%	11.3%	0
Capital Structure	Shareholders	95	95	87.4%	12.6%	0
Compensation	Board (133 inferred)	8,399	8,360	78.3%	21.7%	34
Compensation	Shareholders (44 inferred)	231	231	35.1%	64.9%	0
Audit-related	Board	5,089	5,085	92.6%	7.4%	3
Audit-related	Shareholders (6 inferred)	147	140	91.4%	8.6%	7
Say-on-Pay	Board (1,549 inferred)	3,074	2,901	82.7%	17.3%	1
Say-on-Pay	Shareholders (9 inferred)	9	9	100.0%	0.0%	0
Other	Board	1,050	1,048	73.3%	26.7%	2
Other	Shareholders	201	201	43.8%	56.2%	0
Other Social Issues	Board	497	497	79.5%	20.5%	0
Other Social Issues	Shareholders	612	612	23.7%	76.3%	0
Extraordinary Transactions	Board	833	831	89.5%	10.5%	2
Extraordinary Transactions	Shareholders	2	2	100.0%	0.0%	0
Environment or Climate	Board	174	174	92.5%	7.5%	0
Environment or Climate	Shareholders	604	604	20.2%	79.8%	0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Board	154	154	100.0%	0.0%	0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Shareholders	358	358	10.6%	89.4%	0
Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce	Board	148	148	100.0%	0.0%	0
Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce	Shareholders	164	164	40.9%	59.1%	0
Shareholder Rights and Defenses	Board	197	143	80.4%	19.6%	54
Shareholder Rights and Defenses	Shareholders (2 inferred)	39	39	82.1%	17.9%	0
Investment Company Matters	Board	43	43	100.0%	0.0%	0

An item the filer put in two categories is counted in both rows, so the rows add up to more than the total. Who put an item on the ballot is decided item by item: the filer’s own answer on Form N-PX (Item 1(h)), or, where the filing does not give one, the proposal’s own wording (2,398 items, shown as inferred). The two figures above use only part of these rows: the board figure, board proposals on directors, pay, the auditor, capital, transactions and fund matters; the shareholder figure, environmental, social, workforce and diversity shareholder proposals at US-listed companies. How we count these

Every proposal where Eaton Vance broke with the board (6,088 distinct proposals) →

What is being counted

The unit is a fund-level observation: one fund’s vote on one proposal at one meeting. It is not a share, not a filing line and not a proposal.: Eaton Vance filed 85,755 vote records for 2024-2025; after removing votes filed twice in different N-PX filings, that is 82,203 ballot items (fund-level observations) across 3,921 issuer names and 35 funds. They cover 47,460 distinct proposals: one proposal voted by twenty of its funds is twenty ballot items here and one proposal. Proposals are counted per issuer name and meeting, and wordings of the same director nominee are counted once; two different wordings of any other proposal count twice, so this is an upper bound. A fund that reported several directions for the same item is a split vote, counted on its own (see the table below) and not collapsed into the larger direction. “Issuer names” is literal: filers spell the same company several ways and those are counted separately here, so this runs higher than the number of distinct companies.
Share counts are not used anywhere on this page.: Share figures in N-PX carry their own long list of corrections in this dataset, and a share-weighted rate would inherit every one of them. Every percentage here is a count of items.
Abstentions are reported, never hidden inside a percentage.: On the board’s own proposals an abstention or a withheld vote is not support, so it is in the denominator of the FOR figure and not in its numerator. On shareholder proposals an abstention is neither support nor opposition, so it is excluded from the denominator and shown on its own.
347 items are outside both headline figures.: Besides the table rows neither figure uses:

Excluded	Items	Why
Not voted	0	Reported as not voted, take no action or do not vote. No position was expressed, so there is nothing to count.
Other ballot type	169	Frequency ballots (one / two / three years) and anything else that is not a FOR, AGAINST, abstention or withhold.
Direction indeterminate	0	The fund reported several directions for one ballot item with no shares attached to any of them, so which way it voted cannot be established.
Split vote	178	The fund voted its shares in more than one direction on the item (for example some FOR and some AGAINST), the smaller part at least 5% of its shares. It is not collapsed into the larger part.

About this page

Every figure is derived from Form N-PX, the filing in which registered funds disclose how they voted every proxy and institutional managers disclose their votes on executive pay (say-on-pay, say-on-frequency and golden parachutes). Figures are rebuilt weekly; this page was built on October 25, 2026. The interactive database shows the same votes company by company, including every individual fund.

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