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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000063908-22-000028"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "MCD"
cik: "0000063908"
company_name: "MCDONALDS CORP"
filed_at: "2022-06-02T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-25T05:15:27.971847+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# McDonald's shareholders re-elect all 12 directors, approve civil rights audit proposal

## Summary
- All 12 board nominees re-elected with 430M-490M votes each; Icahn nominees received <10M.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 445.8M for, 45.9M against (excluding 67.7M broker non-votes).
- Shareholder proposal for third-party civil rights audit approved: 273.8M for, 217.2M against.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor: 535.4M for, 26.2M against.
- Five other shareholder proposals (special meetings, plastics, antibiotics, lobbying, political influence) not approved.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000063908-22-000028
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: MCD
- cik: 0000063908
- company_name: MCDONALDS CORP
- filed_at: 2022-06-02T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000006390822000028/0000063908-22-000028-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/63908/000006390822000028/mcd-20220526.htm

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