---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-26-015901"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "BYD"
cik: "0000906553"
company_name: "BOYD GAMING CORP"
filed_at: "2026-05-08T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-14T21:17:48.016803+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Boyd Gaming stockholders elect all eight director nominees at 2026 annual meeting

## Summary
- All eight director nominees elected; vote totals range from 40.2M (Spadafor) to 57.7M (Boyd Johnson).
- Ratification of Deloitte & Touche LLP as independent auditor: 69.5M for, 1.8M against, 46k abstain.
- Advisory vote on executive compensation approved with 45.1M for, 15.4M against, 57.9k abstain.
- No other material changes in board composition or compensation arrangements disclosed.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-26-015901
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: BYD
- cik: 0000906553
- company_name: BOYD GAMING CORP
- filed_at: 2026-05-08T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774926015901/0001437749-26-015901-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774926015901/bgc20260504c_8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  BOYD GAMING CORP shareholders approved Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation at the 2026-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: say on pay
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-07
  source text: The compensation of the Company’s named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company’s definitive proxy statement on Schedule 14A for the Annual Meeting, was approved, on an advisory basis.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774926015901/0001437749-26-015901-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BOYD GAMING CORP shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2026-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-07
  source text: The appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm was ratified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774926015901/0001437749-26-015901-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  BOYD GAMING CORP shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2026-05-07 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2026-05-07
  source text: Each of the director nominees was elected to serve as a director until the 2027 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/906553/000143774926015901/0001437749-26-015901-index.htm

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