Item 5.07
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Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
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The 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) of National Fuel Gas Company (the “Company”) was held on March 11, 2020. At the Annual Meeting, the stockholders elected David H. Anderson as director for a one-year term, David P. Bauer and Barbara M. Baumann as first-time Company directors for one-year terms and Jeffrey W. Shaw, Thomas E. Skains and Ronald J. Tanski as directors for three-year terms. The stockholders also approved named executive officer compensation in a non-binding advisory vote and ratified the appointment of an independent registered public accounting firm. The stockholder proposal requesting that the Company’s Board of Directors undertake the necessary steps to declassify the Board received support from a majority of shares voted.
The vote with respect to Mr. Anderson was as follows: For, 69,428,723 (98.7% of the votes cast); Withheld, 887,952; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557. The vote with respect to Mr. Bauer was as follows: For, 69,446,701 (98.8% of the votes cast); Withheld, 869,974; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557. The vote with respect to Ms. Baumann was as follows: For, 69,500,002 (98.8% of the votes cast); Withheld, 816,673; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557. The vote with respect to Mr. Shaw was as follows: For, 56,703,923 (80.6% of the votes cast); Withheld, 13,612,752; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557. The vote with respect to Mr. Skains was as follows: For, 63,652,321 (90.5% of the votes cast); Withheld, 6,664,354; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557. The vote with respect to Mr. Tanski was as follows: For, 64,193,148 (91.3% of the votes cast); Withheld, 6,123,527; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557.
The advisory vote with respect to approval of named executive officer compensation was as follows: For, 66,077,469 (94.9% of the votes cast); Against, 3,540,313; Abstain, 698,893; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557.
The vote with respect to ratification of the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as independent registered public accounting firm was as follows: For, 77,229,627 (98.0% of the votes cast); Against, 1,611,417; Abstain, 297,188; Broker Non-Votes, 0.
The vote with respect to the stockholder proposal was as follows: For, 50,789,360 (73.2% of the votes cast); Against, 18,623,456; Abstain, 903,859; Broker Non-Votes, 8,821,557.