TORONTO, April 4, 2017 /CNW/ - Scotiabank announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated February 1, 2017 were elected as directors of the Bank. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at its Annual Meeting of Shareholders earlier today in Toronto, Ontario are set out below.

Election of Directors

On a vote by ballot, each of the following 15 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of the Bank:

Nominee

Votes For

% For

Votes Withheld

% Withheld

Nora A. Aufreiter

682,370,921

99.74%

1,810,479

0.26%

Guillermo E. Babatz

682,338,060

99.73%

1,843,340

0.27%

Scott B. Bonham

682,538,636

99.76%

1,642,763

0.24%

Charles H. Dallara

682,284,260

99.72%

1,897,140

0.28%

William R. Fatt

682,699,728

99.78%

1,481,671

0.22%

Tiff Macklem

682,569,380

99.76%

1,612,020

0.24%

Thomas C. O'Neill

682,130,898

99.70%

2,050,501

0.30%

Eduardo Pacheco

671,814,173

98.19%

12,367,226

1.81%

Brian J. Porter

682,744,567

99.79%

1,436,833

0.21%

Una M. Power

682,477,383

99.75%

1,704,016

0.25%

Aaron W. Regent

678,538,768

99.18%

5,642,631

0.82%

Indira V. Samarasekera

682,314,940

99.73%

1,866,459

0.27%

Susan L. Segal

682,250,127

99.72%

1,931,272

0.28%

Barbara S. Thomas

680,632,409

99.48%

3,548,991

0.52%

L. Scott Thomson

678,043,835

99.10%

6,137,565

0.90%

 

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held earlier today will be published shortly on www.scotiabank.com, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About Scotiabank
Scotiabank is Canada's international bank and a leading financial services provider in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central America, and Asia-Pacific. We are dedicated to helping our 23 million customers become better off through a broad range of advice, products and services, including personal and commercial banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of more than 88,000 employees and assets of $887 billion (as at January 31, 2017), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto (TSX: BNS) and New York Exchanges (NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.

SOURCE Scotiabank

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