Annual meeting of stockholders

• Final stockholder voting results (15.8KB)

International Business Machines Corporation held its Annual Meeting of Stockholders on April 24, 2012. For more information on the following proposals, see the company's proxy statement dated March 12, 2012. Below are the final voting results.

IBM stockholders elected each of the fourteen nominees to the Board of Directors for a one-year term by a majority of the votes cast.

IBM stockholders ratified the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm for the company:

For	907,372,177
Against	17,176,589
Abstain	3,420,575

Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation:

For	714,188,398	96.21%
Against	28,146,005	3.79%
Abstain	6,955,446
Broker Non-Votes	178,742,193

Stockholder Proposal to Review Political Contributions - Trade Associations Policy:

For	69,840,656	9.73%
Against	647,698,773	90.27%
Abstain	31,695,370
Broker Non-Votes	178,742,193

Stockholder Proposal for Disclosure of Lobbying Policies and Practices:

For	70,316,189	9.80%
Against	646,942,269	90.20%
Abstain	31,978,413
Broker Non-Votes	178,742,193

The Stockholder Proposal on Cumulative Voting was not presented at the meeting.