Royal Bank of Canada Announces Election of Directors

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Apr 10, 2015, 14:04 ET

TORONTO, April 10, 2015 /CNW/ - Royal Bank of Canada (RY on TSX and NYSE) announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated February 9, 2015, were elected as directors of RBC. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at its Annual and Special Meeting earlier today in Toronto are set out below.

Each of the following 15 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director.

Nominee	Votes For	% For	Votes Withheld	% Withheld
W. Geoffrey Beattie	655,879,869	98.47%	10,224,223	1.53%
Jacynthe Côté	663,647,741	99.63%	2,456,736	0.37%
Toos N. Daruvala	662,849,638	99.51%	3,254,842	0.49%
David F. Denison	659,485,152	99.01%	6,619,523	0.99%
Richard L. George	662,811,992	99.51%	3,292,540	0.49%
Alice D. Laberge	661,918,350	99.37%	4,186,181	0.63%
Michael H. McCain	660,690,101	99.19%	5,414,432	0.81%
David I. McKay	663,290,102	99.58%	2,814,427	0.42%
Heather Munroe-Blum	663,442,059	99.60%	2,661,774	0.40%
J. Pedro Reinhard	655,640,453	98.43%	10,463,380	1.57%
Thomas A. Renyi	660,861,552	99.21%	5,243,181	0.79%
Edward Sonshine	647,615,592	97.22%	18,488,237	2.78%
Kathleen P. Taylor	661,048,271	99.24%	5,056,261	0.76%
Bridget A. van Kralingen	660,210,698	99.12%	5,894,034	0.88%
Victor L. Young	656,640,060	98.58%	9,463,771	1.42%

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual and Special Meeting will be available shortly at rbc.com/investorrelations and will be filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is Canada's largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America's leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We employ approximately 78,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 39 other countries. For more information, please visit rbc.com.

SOURCE RBC