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VanEck ETF Trust proxy voting record, 2023-2024

VanEck ETF Trust reported 31,160 proxy votes on Form N-PX for the 2024 season. On the 21,942 ballot items the board itself put forward — directors, pay, the auditor, capital — it voted FOR 88.5% of the time. On the 530 environmental and social proposals put on the ballot by shareholders, it voted FOR 26.2% of the time.

2023-20242024-2025 2025-2026

88.5%Voted for board proposals
26.2%Backed E&S proposals
29,725Ballot items
23,133Proposals
1,903Issuers
50Funds / accounts

On the board’s own proposals

88.5% FOR of 21,942 fund votes on board proposals in 2023-2024: directors, pay, auditor, capital.

88.5% FOR

FOR 19,421 AGAINST 1,825 Abstained or withheld 696

How we count these

On proposals shareholders put on the ballot

26.2% FOR of 530 fund votes on environmental and social proposals shareholders put on the ballot. The board opposed 469.

26.2% FOR AGAINST

FOR 139 AGAINST 391 Abstained 4

See the 139 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.

VanEck ETF Trust, 2023-2024. “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 (39 inferred)	13,816	12,439	92.3%	7.7%	603
Director Elections	Shareholders (44 inferred)	111	44	4.5%	95.5%	20
Corporate Governance	Board	5,287	4,872	91.4%	8.6%	49
Corporate Governance	Shareholders (5 inferred)	133	114	57.9%	42.1%	3
Capital Structure	Board	3,061	2,902	91.7%	8.3%	22
Capital Structure	Shareholders (4 inferred)	11	11	81.8%	18.2%	0
Compensation	Board	2,892	2,768	84.6%	15.4%	18
Compensation	Shareholders (6 inferred)	86	82	22.0%	78.0%	0
Audit-related	Board	2,076	1,966	96.9%	3.1%	50
Audit-related	Shareholders (2 inferred)	2	2	100.0%	0.0%	0
Say-on-Pay	Board	980	870	82.8%	17.2%	0
Say-on-Pay	Shareholders (4 inferred)	4	2	0.0%	100.0%	0
Other	Board (58 inferred)	313	149	69.8%	30.2%	2
Other	Shareholders	123	24	16.7%	83.3%	20
Extraordinary Transactions	Board	332	322	96.3%	3.7%	4
Extraordinary Transactions	Shareholders	2	2	0.0%	100.0%	0
Other Social Issues	Board	48	40	95.0%	5.0%	2
Other Social Issues	Shareholders	220	208	33.2%	66.8%	2
Shareholder Rights and Defenses	Board	102	88	98.9%	1.1%	7
Shareholder Rights and Defenses	Shareholders	121	108	79.6%	20.4%	11
Environment or Climate	Board	18	12	83.3%	16.7%	5
Environment or Climate	Shareholders	145	143	16.8%	83.2%	2
Human Rights or Human Capital/workforce	Shareholders	98	94	30.9%	69.1%	0
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	Shareholders	90	90	18.9%	81.1%	0
Uncategorized	Board (26 inferred)	26	0	n/a	n/a	0
Uncategorized	Shareholders (2 inferred)	2	0	n/a	n/a	0
Investment Company Matters	Board	8	8	87.5%	12.5%	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 (190 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 VanEck ETF Trust broke with the board (2,207 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.: VanEck ETF Trust filed 31,160 vote records for 2023-2024; after removing votes filed twice in different N-PX filings, that is 29,725 ballot items (fund-level observations) across 1,903 issuer names and 50 funds. They cover 23,133 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.
1,712 items are outside both headline figures.: Besides the table rows neither figure uses:

Excluded	Items	Why
Not voted	743	Reported as not voted, take no action or do not vote. No position was expressed, so there is nothing to count.
Other ballot type	841	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	128	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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