---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001213900-25-047335"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "GPOR"
cik: "0000874499"
company_name: "GULFPORT ENERGY CORP"
filed_at: "2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-20T16:48:14.080974+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.3
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Gulfport Energy stockholders approve officer exculpation amendment, elect seven directors

## Summary
- Stockholders voted 14,158,190 for / 1,911,382 against officer exculpation amendment to certificate of incorporation.
- All seven director nominees elected: Timothy Cutt, David Wolf, Jason Martinez, Jeannie Powers, David Reganato, John Reinhart, Mary Shafer-Malicki.
- Auditor Grant Thornton LLP ratified with 16,124,525 votes for, 437,031 against.
- Say-on-pay approved on advisory basis: 15,713,088 for, 356,593 against, 24,234 abstentions.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001213900-25-047335
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: GPOR
- cik: 0000874499
- company_name: GULFPORT ENERGY CORP
- filed_at: 2025-05-23T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.3
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.3
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874499/000121390025047335/0001213900-25-047335-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874499/000121390025047335/ea0243340-8k_gulfport.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  GULFPORT ENERGY CORP: Stockholders approved an amendment to the Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation to provide for exculpation of certain officers as permitted by Delaware law (effective 2025-05-21).
  - Change: charter amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-21
  source text: on May 21, 2025, the stockholders of Gulfport Energy Corporation (the “Company”) approved an amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation (the “Amendment”) to provide for exculpation of certain officers of the Company as permitted by amendments to Delaware law.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/874499/000121390025047335/0001213900-25-047335-index.htm

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