Bank of Montreal Confirms Election of Board of Directors

TORONTO, May 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- On April 2, 2019 Bank of Montreal (TSX:BMO)(NYSE:BMO) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders in Toronto. At that meeting all the director nominees listed in the bank's management proxy circular dated February 7, 2019 were elected. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors are set out below.

Each of the following 15 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of Bank of Montreal:

Nominee	Votes For		Votes Withheld
Janice M. Babiak	296,531,411	98.53%	4,414,205	1.47%
Sophie Brochu	299,384,889	99.48%	1,560,726	0.52%
Craig W. Broderick	299,806,072	99.62%	1,139,543	0.38%
George A. Cope	294,404,047	97.83%	6,545,167	2.17%
Christine A. Edwards	298,617,589	99.23%	2,331,440	0.77%
Martin S. Eichenbaum	299,603,599	99.55%	1,345,431	0.45%
Ronald H. Farmer	290,527,321	96.54%	10,421,447	3.46%
David Harquail	299,787,758	99.61%	1,161,272	0.39%
Linda S. Huber	299,885,964	99.65%	1,063,841	0.35%
Eric R. La Flèche	299,788,057	99.61%	1,161,748	0.39%
Lorraine Mitchelmore	299,804,412	99.62%	1,145,413	0.38%
Philip S. Orsino	293,731,513	97.60%	7,218,291	2.40%
J. Robert S. Prichard	294,669,626	97.91%	6,280,136	2.09%
Darryl White	299,614,324	99.56%	1,335,442	0.44%
Don M. Wilson III	297,673,513	98.91%	3,276,291	1.09%

Following the Annual Meeting of Shareholders, final voting results on all matters voted on at the meeting were published on www.bmo.com, and filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About BMO Financial Group
Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider - the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $807 billion as of January 31, 2019, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.

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