Voting results of 2019 Annual General Meeting

23 May 2019

Aviva plc announces the results of its Annual General Meeting held today.

All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and were passed.

Voting results of 2019 Annual General Meeting

The total number of votes received on each resolution is as follows:

Resolution	For	% of votes cast	Against	% of votes cast	Votes cast as % of Issued Share Capital	Withheld
1 . To receive and consider the Company’s 2018 Annual report and accounts	2,626,681,197	99.99	153,920	0.01	67.07%	13,525,034
2. To approve the Directors’ remuneration report in the Company’s 2018 Annual report and accounts	2,574,643,176	97.61	63,055,053	2.39	67.35%	2,660,993
3. To declare a final dividend of 20.75 pence per ordinary share	2,639,325,722	99.97	812,311	0.03	67.41%	233,940
4. To re-elect Claudia Arney	2,627,164,947	99.55	11,953,985	0.45	67.39%	1,240,406
5. To re-elect Glyn Barker	2,525,880,824	96.60	88,861,187	3.40	66.76%	25,617,805
6. To re-elect Andy Briggs	RESOLUTION WITHDRAWN
7. To re-elect Patricia Cross	2,578,686,382	97.75	59,253,163	2.25	67.36%	2,432,266
8. To re-elect Belén Romana García	2,626,492,296	99.53	12,531,821	0.47	67.39%	1,341,520
9. To re-elect Michael Mire	2,626,525,420	99.53	12,516,154	0.47	67.39%	1,320,311
10. To re-elect Sir Adrian Montague CBE	2,625,180,106	99.47	14,021,076	0.53	67.39%	1,156,197
11. To re-elect Tom Stoddard	2,616,456,412	99.14	22,667,377	0.86	67.39%	1,243,103
12. To re-elect Maurice Tulloch	2,627,883,267	99.57	11,318,732	0.43	67.39%	1,170,817
13. To re-appoint PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as Auditor of the Company	2,599,294,424	99.89	2,749,858	0.11	66.44%	38,327,355
14. To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditor’s remuneration	2,629,855,869	99.63	9,766,588	0.37	67.40%	739,035
15. To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and incur political expenditure	2,560,132,161	97.50	65,688,896	2.50	67.05%	14,503,687
16. To authorise the directors of the Company to allot ordinary shares	2,532,559,972	95.94	107,065,568	4.06	67.40%	711,494
17. Disapplication of pre-emption rights on allotment of ordinary shares*	2,606,888,656	99.29	18,738,069	0.71	67.04%	14,728,873
18. Disapplication of pre-emption rights – specified capital projects*	2,513,578,866	95.73	112,002,031	4.27	67.04%	14,766,308
19. To authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares in respect of Solvency II Instruments	2,584,932,870	98.44	40,990,824	1.56	67.05%	14,427,705
20. Disapplication of pre-emption rights –Solvency II Instruments*	2,570,983,506	97.93	54,411,742	2.07	67.04%	14,743,053
21. To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares*	2,587,410,088	98.18	48,077,536	1.82	67.29%	4,869,079
22. To authorise the Company to purchase its own 8 3/4% preference shares*	2,622,462,957	99.51	12,936,545	0.49	67.29%	4,957,575
23. To authorise the Company to purchase its own 8 3/8% preference shares*	2,622,425,494	99.51	12,945,238	0.49	67.29%	4,980,858
24. To authorise the Company to call general meetings other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 clear days’ notice*	2,476,780,234	94.28	150,264,212	5.72	67.08%	13,288,024

Notes

*Special resolution

A vote withheld is not a vote in law and is not counted in the calculation of the votes for or against a resolution.

On 22 May 2019 there were 3,916,337,034 Aviva plc ordinary shares in issue. Ordinary shareholders are entitled to one vote per share held.

In accordance with UK Listing Rule 9.6.2R copies of all the resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business have been submitted to the UK Listing Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/nsm.

A copy of the poll results for the Annual General Meeting will also be available on the Aviva website at www.aviva.com/agm shortly.

The full text of each of the resolutions is set out in the Notice of Annual General Meeting which is available on the Aviva website at www.aviva.com/agm.

2019 Financial Calendar

Half Year Preliminary Results Announcement: 8 August 2019

Enquiries

Kirstine Cooper, Group General Counsel and Company Secretary
+44 (0)20 7662 6646

Media:

Nigel Prideaux
+44 (0)20 7662 0215

Andrew Reid
+44 (0)20 7662 3131

Analysts:

Chris Esson
+44 (0)20 7662 8115

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Notes to editors:

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