Voting statistics at company AGMs

It’s the Annual General Meeting of BSyB tomorrow.

All the directors of the company are up for election, including James Murdoch. Whilst News Corp dominate the voting shares, it will be interesting to see how many votes stack up from more independent minded investors.

In the 9 months to end of Sept 2011 there were approx 2500 director elections in the FTSE350.

Of these:

2.5% of directors received a vote against their election of greater than 10%
1% received a vote against of greater than 15%
0.5% received a vote against of greather than 20%