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2009 Annual Shareholders' Meeting

Voting Results

Details of the following proposals are available in the Company's Proxy Statement, dated April 17, 2009. 

A total of 1,113,901,008 shares of McDonald's Common Stock were outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Shareholders' Meeting.

 

Proposal No. 1. Election of Directors*

In the election of directors, each nominee was elected by a vote of the shareholders as follows:

DIRECTORFORAGAINSTABSTAIN*
Robert A. Eckert908,170,38038,175,5431,868,623
  % of Shares Voted FOR and AGAINST         95.97%       4.03%     n/a
Enrique Hernandez, Jr.891,152,73254,730,8502,330,964
 % of Shares Voted FOR and AGAINST         94.21%       5.79%     n/a
Jeanne P. Jackson932,045,33514,203,6611,965,550
 % of Shares Voted FOR and AGAINST         98.50%       1.50%     n/a
Andrew J. McKenna899,530,65646,654,8892,029,001
 % of Shares Voted FOR and AGAINST         95.07%       4.93     n/a

 

 

 

 

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* Abstentions have no effect on the outcome of our Director elections; therefore, abstentions have not been included in the denominator when calculating voting percentages for Director nominees.

 

Proposal No. 2. Approval of the Appointment of an Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm to Serve as Independent Auditors for 2009

 FORAGAINST  ABSTAIN
Number of Shares Voted936,097,63510,511,5171,605,394
% of Shares Voted        98.72%      1.11%    0.17%

 

 

 

Proposal No. 3. Approval of Performance Goals for Certain Qualified Performance-Based Awards under the McDonald's Corporation Amended and Restated 2001 Omnibus Stock Ownership Plan

 FORAGAINST  ABSTAIN
Number of Shares Voted900,537,79843,202,4534,474,295
% of Shares Voted        94.97%      4.56%    0.47%

 

 

 

Proposal No. 4. Approval of McDonald's Corporation 2009 Cash Incentive Plan

 FORAGAINST  ABSTAIN
Number of Shares  Voted905,506,32337,549,3395,158,884
% of Shares Voted        95.50%      3.96%    0.54%

 

 

 

Proposal No. 5. Shareholder Proposal Relating to a Shareholder Vote on Executive Compensation

 FORAGAINST  ABSTAIN
Number of Shares Voted348,537,776   393,524,98350,990,908
% of Shares Voted             43.95%      49.62%   6.43%

 

 

 

Proposal No. 6. Shareholder Proposal Relating to the Use of Cage-Free Eggs

 FORAGAINST  ABSTAIN
Number of Shares Voted38,951,294620,952,673133,149,700
% of Shares Voted           4.91%         78.30%         16.79%