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John Hancock proxy voting record, 2024-2025

John Hancock reported 355,626 proxy votes on Form N-PX for the 2025 season. On the 277,888 ballot items the board itself put forward — directors, pay, the auditor, capital — it voted FOR 90.7% of the time. On the 3,027 environmental and social proposals put on the ballot by shareholders, it voted FOR 16.1% of the time.

2023-20242024-20252025-2026

90.7%Voted for board proposals
16.1%Backed E&S proposals
331,076Ballot items
102,245Proposals
11,368Issuers
123Funds / accounts

On the board’s own proposals

90.7% FOR of 277,888 fund votes on board proposals in 2024-2025: directors, pay, auditor, capital.

90.7% FOR

FOR 251,924 AGAINST 18,198 Abstained or withheld 7,766

How we count these

On proposals shareholders put on the ballot

16.1% FOR of 3,027 fund votes on environmental and social proposals shareholders put on the ballot. The board opposed 3,018.

16.1% FOR AGAINST

FOR 488 AGAINST 2,539 Abstained 27

See the 488 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.

John Hancock, 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 (80 inferred)	171,758	163,488	95.5%	4.5%	7,619
Director Elections	Shareholders (304 inferred)	358	356	32.0%	68.0%	2
Capital Structure	Board (3 inferred)	33,741	33,567	89.9%	10.1%	55
Capital Structure	Shareholders (33 inferred)	215	215	47.9%	52.1%	0
Corporate Governance	Board (7 inferred)	28,426	27,891	87.4%	12.6%	450
Corporate Governance	Shareholders (85 inferred)	1,942	1,926	38.5%	61.5%	11
Audit-related	Board (8 inferred)	27,898	27,840	98.1%	1.9%	48
Audit-related	Shareholders (9 inferred)	82	57	84.2%	15.8%	0
Say-on-Pay	Board (6,396 inferred)	26,263	24,307	86.0%	14.0%	8
Say-on-Pay	Shareholders (15 inferred)	22	22	86.4%	13.6%	0
Other	Board	19,311	18,622	93.0%	7.0%	667
Other	Shareholders (2 inferred)	194	193	6.2%	93.8%	0
Compensation	Board	18,374	18,288	81.8%	18.2%	33
Compensation	Shareholders (22 inferred)	573	565	36.6%	63.4%	0
Extraordinary Transactions	Board	5,164	5,119	86.9%	13.1%	8
Extraordinary Transactions	Shareholders	9	9	0.0%	100.0%	0
Other Social Issues	Board	1,335	1,319	95.8%	4.2%	16
Other Social Issues	Shareholders	1,843	1,827	14.6%	85.4%	10
Shareholder Rights and Defenses	Board (13 inferred)	1,250	1,115	67.5%	32.5%	120
Shareholder Rights and Defenses	Shareholders (108 inferred)	444	439	82.7%	17.3%	5
Environment or Climate	Board	92	86	74.4%	25.6%	6
Environment or Climate	Shareholders	1,224	1,203	19.0%	81.0%	10
Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce	Board	1	1	100.0%	0.0%	0
Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce	Shareholders	696	689	13.4%	86.6%	7
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Shareholders	143	143	18.2%	81.8%	0
Investment Company Matters	Board	32	32	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 (7,085 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 John Hancock broke with the board (6,132 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.: John Hancock filed 355,626 vote records for 2024-2025; after removing votes filed twice in different N-PX filings, that is 331,076 ballot items (fund-level observations) across 11,368 issuer names and 123 funds. They cover 102,245 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.
2,951 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	1,875	Frequency ballots (one / two / three years) and anything else that is not a FOR, AGAINST, abstention or withhold.
Direction indeterminate	3	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	1,073	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 13, 2026. The interactive database shows the same votes company by company, including every individual fund.

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