---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001903596-23-000437"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "NWPP"
cik: "0001163389"
company_name: "NEW PEOPLES BANKSHARES INC"
filed_at: "2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-14T20:50:04.111806+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# New Peoples Bankshares holds annual meeting; elects Boggess and Cox, ratifies auditor

## Summary
- Shareholders elected Gina D. Boggess and John D. Cox as directors for three-year terms expiring 2026.
- Ratified Yount, Hyde & Barbour P.C. as independent auditor for fiscal year 2023.
- Presentation recognized former director Charles H. Gent, Jr., who resigned effective February 21, 2023.
- Total shares present: 16,007,479 of 23,834,444 entitled; broker non-votes 705,166 on director election.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001903596-23-000437
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: NWPP
- cik: 0001163389
- company_name: NEW PEOPLES BANKSHARES INC
- filed_at: 2023-05-18T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.07, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163389/000190359623000437/0001903596-23-000437-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163389/000190359623000437/nwpp_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001903596-23-000437.txt

## Key facts
- Shareholder Votes
  NEW PEOPLES BANKSHARES INC shareholders approved Election of Directors at the 2023-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: director election
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-16
  source text: Proposal 1: Election of Directors The shareholders elected two directors to serve three-year terms expiring in 2026. The two directors elected to serve the three-year terms were Gina D. Boggess and John D. Cox. The results of the vote were as follows: Nominees Votes FOR Votes Withheld Broker Non-Votes Uncast Votes Gina D. Boggess 15,278,749 23,564 705,166 - John D. Cox 15,258,244 44,069 705,166 -
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163389/000190359623000437/0001903596-23-000437-index.htm
- Shareholder Votes
  NEW PEOPLES BANKSHARES INC shareholders approved Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm at the 2023-05-16 meeting.
  - Proposal: auditor ratification
  - Outcome: passed
  - Meeting: 2023-05-16
  source text: Proposal 2: Ratification of the Appointment of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm The shareholders voted to ratify the Company’s Audit Committee of the Board of Directors’ appointment of Yount, Hyde & Barbour P.C. to serve as its independent registered public accounting firm for the year ending December 31, 2023. The results of the vote follow: Votes FOR Votes AGAINST Votes ABSTAIN Uncast Votes 15,987,851 10,689 8,939 -
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1163389/000190359623000437/0001903596-23-000437-index.htm

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