---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-098318"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "LECO"
cik: "0000059527"
company_name: "LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC"
filed_at: "2025-04-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T05:20:11.855860+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.1
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.1
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Lincoln Electric shareholders re-elect all 11 directors, ratify EY, approve say-on-pay

## Summary
- All 11 director nominees elected with votes for ranging from 40.7M to 42.9M; no withhold majority.
- Ratification of Ernst & Young as auditor for FY2025: 48.2M for, 1.1M against, 82K abstentions.
- Advisory say-on-pay approved: 41.9M for, 0.9M against, 280K abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-098318
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: LECO
- cik: 0000059527
- company_name: LINCOLN ELECTRIC HOLDINGS INC
- filed_at: 2025-04-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- 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/59527/000119312525098318/0001193125-25-098318-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/59527/000119312525098318/d79157d8k.htm

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