---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000106640-24-000088"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "WHR"
cik: "0000106640"
company_name: "WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/"
filed_at: "2024-04-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-03T18:02:07.385603+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Whirlpool shareholders elect 12 directors, approve say-on-pay, ratify auditor at 2024 annual meeting

## Summary
- All 12 director nominees elected with 32.6M to 37.6M for votes; Marc R. Bitzer received most votes (35.9M for, 2.2M against).
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 32.6M for, 5.4M against, 0.2M abstain; broker non-votes 5.6M.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as independent auditor for 2024 approved with 41.8M for, 1.8M against, 0.1M abstain.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000106640-24-000088
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: WHR
- cik: 0000106640
- company_name: WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/
- filed_at: 2024-04-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106640/000010664024000088/0000106640-24-000088-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106640/000010664024000088/whr-20240416.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  WHIRLPOOL CORP /DE/ shareholders approved Election of twelve directors to a term to expire in 2025 or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified. at the 2024-04-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-04-16
  source text: Samuel R. Allen, Marc R. Bitzer, Greg Creed, Diane M. Dietz, Gerri T. Elliott, Richard J. Kramer, Jennifer A. LaClair, John D. Liu, James M. Loree, Harish Manwani, Larry O. Spencer, and Rudy Wilson were each elected by the stockholders to a term to expire in 2025 or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/106640/000010664024000088/0000106640-24-000088-index.htm

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