---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-075633"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UWHR"
cik: "0000898171"
company_name: "UWHARRIE CAPITAL CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T23:25:11.621669+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Uwharrie Capital Corp shareholders elect directors and ratify auditor at annual meeting

## Summary
- Elected five directors for three-year terms: Bates, Chambers, Hanson, Poplin, Russell; each received >2.9M votes for.
- Ratified Forvis Mazars, LLP as independent auditor for 2025 with 4,251,819 for, 1,787 against, 45,721 abstain.
- Total votes cast: ~4.3M shares; broker non-votes of 1,239,431 on director election.
- Meeting held May 20, 2025; proposals described in proxy statement filed April 10, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-075633
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UWHR
- cik: 0000898171
- company_name: UWHARRIE CAPITAL CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.1
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/898171/000095017025075633/0000950170-25-075633-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/898171/000095017025075633/uwhr-20250520.htm

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