---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-136767"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CME"
cik: "0001156375"
company_name: "CME GROUP INC."
filed_at: "2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-02T01:55:25.896132+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CME Group annual meeting: all equity directors elected, Class B quorum not met

## Summary
- All 17 Equity Directors elected; Phyllis Lockett received 103.8M against, highest dissent.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor approved with 289.8M votes for.
- Say-on-pay advisory vote passed with 253.1M for and 37.3M against.
- Class B-1, B-2, B-3 director elections failed to achieve quorum; incumbents hold over until 2025.
- Total shares present 314.5M of 360.0M outstanding (87.3%).

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-136767
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CME
- cik: 0001156375
- company_name: CME GROUP INC.
- filed_at: 2024-05-13T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312524136767/0001193125-24-136767-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312524136767/d803237d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders approved Election of seventeen Equity Directors to serve until 2025 at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: 1. The election of seventeen Equity Directors to serve until 2025 (elected by the Class A and Class B shareholders voting together as a single class):
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312524136767/0001193125-24-136767-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders approved Advisory vote of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: 3. The advisory vote of the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers (by the Class A and Class B shareholders voting together as a single class) was approved: Votes For Votes Against Abstentions 253,068,323 37,272,265 362,707
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312524136767/0001193125-24-136767-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  CME GROUP INC. shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent public accounting firm for 2024 at the 2024-05-09 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2024-05-09
  source text: 2. The ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s independent public accounting firm for 2024 (ratified by the Class A and Class B shareholders voting together as a single class): Votes For Votes Against Abstentions 289,766,319 24,482,330 218,858
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1156375/000119312524136767/0001193125-24-136767-index.htm

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