Aviva plc announces the results of its Annual General Meeting held today.
Voting results of 2026 Annual General Meeting (PDF 170KB)
All resolutions were voted on by way of a poll and were passed. The total number of votes received on each resolution is as follows:
Voting results of 2026 Annual General Meeting
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| 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 2025 Annual Report and accounts | 2,046,875,394 | 99.87% | 2,597,763 | 0.13% | 67.75% | 2,569,156 |
| 2. | To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Report | 1,986,873,997 | 96.89% | 63,717,361 | 3.11% | 67.79% | 1,450,901 |
| 3. | To approve the Directors’ Remuneration Policy | 1,938,003,998 | 94.52% | 112,460,824 | 5.48% | 67.79% | 1,577,371 |
| 4. | To approve the rules of the Aviva Annual Bonus Plan | 1,995,117,439 | 97.32% | 54,878,146 | 2.68% | 67.77% | 2,046,207 |
| 5. | To approve the rules of the Aviva Long-Term Incentive Plan | 1,992,544,578 | 97.20% | 57,367,915 | 2.80% | 67.77% | 2,129,657 |
| 6. | To approve the Company’s Climate-related Financial Disclosures for 2025 | 1,676,641,915 | 91.64% | 152,939,401 | 8.36% | 60.48% | 222,460,943 |
| 7. | To declare a final dividend for the year ended 31 December 2025 of 26.2 pence per ordinary share | 2,043,326,319 | 99.63% | 7,585,132 | 0.37% | 67.80% | 1,130,525 |
| 8. | To re-elect George Culmer | 2,008,625,692 | 97.96% | 41,746,893 | 2.04% | 67.78% | 1,689,496 |
| 9. | To re-elect Amanda Blanc | 2,037,378,167 | 99.36% | 13,058,015 | 0.64% | 67.79% | 1,594,571 |
| 10. | To re-elect Charlotte Jones | 2,035,183,451 | 99.27% | 15,010,019 | 0.73% | 67.78% | 1,848,789 |
| 11. | To re-elect Cheryl Agius | 2,006,357,970 | 97.86% | 43,978,429 | 2.14% | 67.78% | 1,705,973 |
| 12. | To re-elect Andrea Blance | 2,006,056,899 | 97.84% | 44,190,081 | 2.16% | 67.78% | 1,795,088 |
| 13. | To re-elect Ian Clark | 2,006,216,627 | 97.85% | 44,104,861 | 2.15% | 67.78% | 1,720,580 |
| 14. | To re-elect Patrick Flynn | 2,005,722,187 | 97.83% | 44,574,604 | 2.17% | 67.78% | 1,745,277 |
| 15. | To re-elect Shonaid Jemmett-Page | 2,005,629,961 | 97.83% | 44,476,945 | 2.17% | 67.77% | 1,935,162 |
| 16. | To re-elect Mohit Joshi | 2,004,883,986 | 97.79% | 45,387,847 | 2.21% | 67.78% | 1,770,235 |
| 17. | To re-elect Pippa Lambert | 1,979,516,143 | 96.54% | 71,004,349 | 3.46% | 67.79% | 1,521,359 |
| 18. | To re-elect Jim McConville | 2,005,939,538 | 97.84% | 44,355,986 | 2.16% | 67.78% | 1,746,544 |
| 19. | To re-elect Michael Mire | 1,930,369,506 | 94.16% | 119,686,712 | 5.84% | 67.77% | 1,985,850 |
| 20. | To re-elect Neil Morrison | 2,006,138,669 | 97.85% | 44,154,959 | 2.15% | 67.78% | 1,748,440 |
| 21. | To re-appoint Ernst & Young LLP as Auditor | 2,049,492,381 | 99.95% | 1,108,379 | 0.05% | 67.79% | 1,440,961 |
| 22. | To authorise the Audit Committee to determine the Auditor’s remuneration | 2,040,978,835 | 99.53% | 9,622,940 | 0.47% | 67.79% | 1,439,950 |
| 23. | To authorise the Company and its subsidiaries to make political donations and incur political expenditure | 2,007,885,853 | 98.42% | 32,232,892 | 1.58% | 67.44% | 11,919,574 |
| 24. | To authorise the directors of the Company to allot ordinary shares | 1,945,197,713 | 94.87% | 105,272,327 | 5.13% | 67.79% | 1,571,962 |
| 25. | To authorise the directors to allot ordinary shares in relation to Solvency II Instruments | 2,015,419,644 | 98.30% | 34,919,195 | 1.70% | 67.78% | 1,703,097 |
| 26. | To authorise the directors to disapply pre-emption rights* | 2,011,527,203 | 98.11% | 38,792,794 | 1.89% | 67.78% | 1,721,809 |
| 27. | To authorise the Company to purchase its own ordinary shares* | 2,045,974,658 | 99.78% | 4,494,615 | 0.22% | 67.79% | 1,572,533 |
| 28. | To adopt new Articles of Association* | 2,040,021,752 | 99.50% | 10,225,067 | 0.50% | 67.78% | 1,795,183 |
| 29. | To authorise the Company to call general meetings other than an Annual General Meeting on not less than 14 clear days’ notice* | 1,915,405,478 | 93.41% | 135,149,304 | 6.59% | 67.79% | 1,486,686 |
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.
As at close of business on 1 May 2026 there were 3,024,880,656 Aviva plc ordinary shares in issue. On a poll in respect of the resolutions, ordinary shareholders are entitled to one vote per share held.
In accordance with UK Listing Rule 6.4.1R copies of all the resolutions passed other than resolutions concerning ordinary business will be submitted to the Financial Conduct Authority via the National Storage Mechanism and will shortly be available for inspection at https://data.fca.org.uk/#/nsm/nationalstoragemechanism.
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.
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Notes to editors:
- We are the UK's only diversified insurer and we operate in the UK, Ireland and Canada. We also have international investments in India and China.
- We help our 25.2 million customers make the most out of life, plan for the future, and have the confidence that if things go wrong we’ll be there to put it right.
- We have been taking care of people for more than 325 years, in line with our purpose of being ‘with you today, for a better tomorrow’. In 2025, we paid £31.9 billion in claims and benefits to our customers.
- Aviva is a Living Wage, Living Pension and Living Hours employer and provides market-leading benefits for our people, including flexible working, paid carers leave and equal parental leave. Find out more at www.aviva.com/about-us/our-people/
- As at 31 December 2025, total Group assets under management at Aviva Group were £454 billion and our estimated Solvency II shareholder capital surplus as at 31 March 2026 was £6.1 billion. Our shares are listed on the London Stock Exchange and we are a member of the FTSE 100 index.
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