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    Scotiabank Announces Election of Directors

    TORONTO, April 9, 2019 /CNW/ - Scotiabank announced that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated February 5, 2019 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.

    Scotiabank (CNW Group/Scotiabank)

    Election of Directors

    On a vote by ballot, each of the following 14 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of the Bank:

    Nominee

    Votes For

    % For

    Votes
    Withheld

    % Withheld

    Nora A. Aufreiter

    698,185,508

    99.64%

    2,514,119

    0.36%

    Guillermo E. Babatz

    686,525,945

    97.98%

    14,173,682

    2.02%

    Scott B. Bonham

    688,030,368

    98.19%

    12,669,259

    1.81%

    Charles H. Dallara

    687,919,645

    98.18%

    12,778,355

    1.82%

    Tiff Macklem

    698,411,579

    99.67%

    2,288,048

    0.33%

    Michael D. Penner

    698,919,520

    99.75%

    1,780,107

    0.25%

    Brian J. Porter

    698,261,736

    99.65%

    2,438,426

    0.35%

    Una M. Power

    696,842,585

    99.45%

    3,857,577

    0.55%

    Aaron W. Regent

    686,459,633

    97.97%

    14,239,994

    2.03%

    Indira V. Samarasekera

    684,734,445

    97.72%

    15,965,717

    2.28%

    Susan L. Segal

    697,884,827

    99.60%

    2,815,335

    0.40%

    Barbara S. Thomas

    687,342,515

    98.09%

    13,357,647

    1.91%

    L. Scott Thomson

    679,524,365

    96.98%

    21,175,262

    3.02%

    Benita M. Warmbold

    687,474,537

    98.11%

    13,225,625

    1.89%

     

    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 the Americas. We are dedicated to helping our more than 25 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 98,000 employees and assets of over $1 trillion (as at January 31, 2019), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BNS) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BNS). For more information, please visit www.scotiabank.com and follow us on Twitter @ScotiabankViews.

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