VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/05/16 -- TELUS Corporation (TELUS) (TSX: T)(NYSE: TU) announced today that the nominees listed in the information circular dated March 9, 2016 were elected as directors of TELUS. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at TELUS' Annual General Meeting on May 5, 2016 (the Meeting) are set out below.
Each of the following 12 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of TELUS:
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Votes % Votes
Nominee Votes For % Votes For Withheld Withheld
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R.H. (Dick) Auchinleck 321,013,734 98.43% 5,117,294 1.57%
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Micheline Bouchard 323,885,853 99.31% 2,234,416 0.69%
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Raymond T. Chan 323,697,585 99.26% 2,418,037 0.74%
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Stockwell Day 323,007,520 99.04% 3,114,988 0.96%
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Lisa De Wilde 325,585,877 99.84% 533,541 0.16%
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Darren Entwistle 324,526,915 99.51% 1,610,612 0.49%
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Mary Jo Haddad 325,532,331 99.82% 590,189 0.18%
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John S. Lacey 306,148,889 93.87% 19,978,492 6.13%
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William A. MacKinnon 325,683,887 99.86% 444,503 0.14%
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John Manley 324,529,750 99.51% 1,601,191 0.49%
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Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah 325,494,189 99.81% 611,232 0.19%
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David L. Mowat 325,534,384 99.82% 591,217 0.18%
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All matters voted on at the Meeting were approved as follows:
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Votes % Votes
Withheld Withheld
Matter Votes For % Votes For / Against / Against
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Appointment of auditors 328,482,066 99.43% 1,892,374 0.57%
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Reconfirmation of
Shareholder Rights Plan 311,992,483 95.66% 14,138,507 4.34%
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Accept Company's approach
to executive compensation 293,180,274 89.90% 32,948,567 10.10%
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Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Meeting will be published shortly on www.telus.com/agm, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.
About TELUS
TELUS (TSX: T)(NYSE: TU) is Canada's fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $12.6 billion of annual revenue and 12.4 million subscriber connections, including 8.4 million wireless subscribers, 1.4 million residential network access lines, 1.6 million high-speed Internet subscribers and 1.0 million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video, and is Canada's largest healthcare IT provider.
For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.
Contacts:
Shawn Hall
TELUS Media Relations
(604) 619-7913
shawn.hall@telus.com
