---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-23-015107"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "KFS"
cik: "0001072627"
company_name: "KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T20:44:13.980385+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Kingsway Financial annual meeting votes pass; all directors elected

## Summary
- 84.4% of shares represented; all seven director nominees elected with >16M for votes each.
- Ratification of Plante & Moran as auditor approved: 21,303,039 for, 11,889 against.
- Nonbinding say-on-pay approved: 16,191,606 for, 53,735 against.
- Broker non-votes of 5,142,058 on director election and say-on-pay.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-23-015107
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: KFS
- cik: 0001072627
- company_name: KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-18T23:59:59+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/1072627/000143774923015107/0001437749-23-015107-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1072627/000143774923015107/kfs20230518_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-16
  source text: All of the nominees for election to the Company’s Board of Directors were elected upon the following votes:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1072627/000143774923015107/0001437749-23-015107-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES INC shareholders approved Ratification of the appointment Plante & Moran, PLLC to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2023 at the 2023-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-16
  source text: Ratification of the appointment Plante & Moran, PLLC to serve as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2023 was approved upon the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1072627/000143774923015107/0001437749-23-015107-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  KINGSWAY FINANCIAL SERVICES INC shareholders approved Nonbinding advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation at the 2023-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-16
  source text: Nonbinding advisory vote to approve named executive officer compensation was approved upon the following vote:
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1072627/000143774923015107/0001437749-23-015107-index.htm

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