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accession: "0001193125-22-117646"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LECO"
cik: "0000059527"
company_name: "LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC"
filed_at: "2022-04-25T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-26T05:09:56.342528+00:00"
event_type: "other"
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source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lincoln Electric reports 2022 annual meeting voting results; all proposals approved

## Summary
- All ten director nominees elected with at least 43.5M votes each; broker non-votes 4.5M.
- Ernst & Young ratified as independent auditors for FY2022 with 50.9M votes for.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved with 44.7M votes for, 2.4M against, 221.9K abstentions.
- Quorum of 88.4% (51.8M of 58.6M shares outstanding) represented at the meeting.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-117646
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LECO
- cik: 0000059527
- company_name: LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC
- filed_at: 2022-04-25T23:59:59+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/59527/000119312522117646/0001193125-22-117646-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312522117646/d572476d8k.htm

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