---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000913142-25-000015"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BDC"
cik: "0000913142"
company_name: "BELDEN INC."
filed_at: "2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T09:51:54.105627+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Belden stockholders elect nine directors, ratify auditor, approve say-on-pay at 2025 annual meeting

## Summary
- All nine director nominees elected with >90% votes cast for each; highest vote for YY Lee (37.16M) and lowest for David Aldrich (34.48M).
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditor with 36.78M votes for, 1.41M against, 15,601 abstentions.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation passed with 36.61M for, 579,827 against, 31,736 abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000913142-25-000015
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BDC
- cik: 0000913142
- company_name: BELDEN INC.
- filed_at: 2025-05-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000091314225000015/0000913142-25-000015-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/913142/000091314225000015/bdc-20250522.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000913142-25-000015.txt

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