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Form N-PX · fund registrantSEC filer no. 1004655

VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS

fund voting report, part of Vanguard

Vote records reported
79,973year to 30 June 2026
Against management
21.2%19,647 of 92,557 marked votes
Say-on-pay support
93.2%for, of for + against + abstain
Shareholder-proposal support
37.6%for, of for + against + abstain
77.0% for14.0% against9.0% other21.2% against management93,782 votes

foragainstabstain, withhold or otheramber tick: the portion cast against management

For the year to 30 June 2026, VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS reported 79,973 vote records on Form N-PX. 19,647 of the 92,557 votes that were marked for or against management went against management: 21.2%, 15.0 percentage points above the median fund registrant (6.2%).

Weighted by the number of shares voted, the against-management share is 4.3%. The two figures differ when the votes against management fall on larger or smaller holdings than the rest.

On pay and on shareholder proposals: it voted for 93.2% of the section 14A say-on-pay items it reported (the median fund registrant: 91.6%) and it voted for 37.6% of the proposals put forward by security holders (the median fund registrant: 27.5%).

By category, votes against management were most frequent in ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE (25.5% of 525), COMPENSATION (25.4% of 8,380) and AUDIT-RELATED (25.3% of 6,398).

It reported 479.2 million shares out on loan at record dates, 0.63% of the shares it held or had lent across the meetings it reported. Shares on loan are not voted.

Compared with other filers

Each rate is defined once, in the methodology. The median is taken over 1,241 fund registrants with at least 25 vote records in the season.

year to 30 June 2026This filerMedian fund registrantAll filers pooled
Against-management share21.2%6.2%10.6%
Say-on-pay support rate93.2%91.6%86.0%
Shareholder-proposal support rate37.6%27.5%33.9%
Shares on loan, share of shares held0.63%0.00%3.12%
Largest families, year to 30 June 2026Against managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
Vanguard20.1%94.1%42.0%
BlackRock and iShares7.5%88.3%11.9%
Fidelity6.0%94.7%27.6%
Dimensional16.4%78.9%57.4%
State Street and SPDR16.9%77.1%50.4%

Votes by category

Filers choose one or more categories for each vote, so a vote can appear in more than one row. Category names are printed as Form N-PX defines them.

Category (as the form names it)VotesForAgainstAgainst managementSplit
DIRECTOR ELECTIONS54,43941,2637,10123.6%
SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES3,3262,8951898.1%
AUDIT-RELATED6,4784,8171,06125.3%
INVESTMENT COMPANY MATTERS42225.0%
SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES3542429024.5%
EXTRAORDINARY TRANSACTIONS1,0559396510.5%
CAPITAL STRUCTURE7,0776,6553305.6%
COMPENSATION8,4846,2161,44425.4%
CORPORATE GOVERNANCE12,98710,1642,32917.3%
ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE52716330225.5%
HUMAN RIGHTS OR HUMAN CAPITAL/WORKFORCE16894744.2%
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION15990681.3%
OTHER SOCIAL ISSUES65230030920.2%
OTHER8026281734.0%

By season

SeasonVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal supportSplit
year to 30 June 202451,2465.4%94.7%47.0%
year to 30 June 202568,98515.9%71.6%38.5%
year to 30 June 202679,97321.2%93.2%37.6%

Say-on-pay votes against management

Counting one say-on-pay item per company meeting, VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS voted against management on 24 of the 772 it marked either way (3.1%) in the year to 30 June 2026.

Shareholder proposals it supported

Of 890 proposals from security holders that could be told apart in the filings and on which it cast a vote, VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS voted for 220 (24.7%). The 40 at the companies with the most reporting filers are listed. Titles are the most common wording among filers; where a wording could name a person, the SEC category is printed instead.

CompanyMeetingProposal
NVIDIA Corporation24 Jun 2026Approval of a non-binding stockholder proposal requesting the replacement of supermajority voting...
Alphabet Inc.5 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding equal shareholder voting
Visa Inc.27 Jan 2026Require Independent Board Chair
Eli Lilly and Company4 May 2026Shareholder proposal to adopt a policy and amend the bylaws to require an independent board chair.
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.13 May 2026Stockholder proposal requesting changes to the stockholder right to call a special meeting.
S&P Global Inc.20 May 2026Vote on a shareholder proposal to reduce the stock ownership threshold for calling a special shareholder...
Starbucks Corporation25 Mar 2026Shareholder proposal requesting supermajority shareholder voting requirements be replaced with majority...
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding annual vote regarding executive pay.
Meta Platforms, Inc.27 May 2026A shareholder proposal regarding dual class capital structure.
United Parcel Service, Inc.7 May 2026To take steps to reduce the voting power of UPS class A stock from 10 votes per share to one vote per share.
FORD MOTOR COMPANY14 May 2026A shareholder proposal relating to a request that the Board take steps to implement one vote per share for...
Synopsys, Inc.16 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal regarding 'stockholders' right to act by written consent
Snowflake Inc.29 Jun 2026To consider and vote on, if properly presented at the meeting, a non-binding stockholder proposal...
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.12 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Give Shareholders the Ability to Call for a Special Shareholder Meeting (Proposal...
Cintas Corporation28 Oct 2025A shareholder proposal regarding support for shareholder ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.
Dover Corporation8 May 2026To consider a shareholder proposal requesting an independent board chair.
NRG Energy, Inc.30 Apr 2026To vote on a stockholder proposal to give shareholders the ability to call for a special shareholder meeting
Lennar Corporation8 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS AND DEFENSES
Carvana Co.5 May 2026To vote upon one stockholder proposal, as described in the Proxy Statement.
Markel Group Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal for a report on the Company's strategies and action plans to mitigate material...
Markel Group Inc.20 May 2026Shareholder proposal to give shareholders an ability to call for a special shareholder meeting.
Campbell Soup Company18 Nov 2025To vote on a shareholder proposal regarding simple majority voting.
TransUnion12 May 2026Advisory vote on a stockholder proposal requesting a stockholder right to call a special meeting.
Henry Schein, Inc.21 May 2026Proposal to approve, by non-binding vote, a shareholder proposal to Govern by Majority Vote.
Ally Financial Inc.6 May 2026Shareholder Proposal to Reduce Threshold for Shareholders to Call Special Meetings.
OGE Energy Corp.14 May 2026Shareholder Proposal Regarding Simple Majority Vote.
The Timken Company8 May 2026Corporate governance
Eagle Materials Inc.4 Aug 2025Non-binding advisory stockholder proposal requesting the declassification of our Board of Directors.
Mohawk Industries, Inc.21 May 2026Stockholder proposal regarding a majority vote standard.
The Wendy's Company20 May 2026S/h proposal - corporate governance
Columbia Sportswear Company10 Jun 2026Shareholder proposal regarding proxy access.
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Eni SpA6 May 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
FinecoBank SpA29 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
FinecoBank SpA29 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: CORPORATE GOVERNANCE
Galp Energia SGPS SA8 May 2026Appraise Management and Supervision of Company and Approve Vote of Confidence to Corporate Bodies
Assicurazioni Generali SpA23 Apr 2026Shareholder proposal: AUDIT-RELATED
EDP SA16 Apr 2026Appraise Management of Company and Approve Vote of Confidence to Executive Board

Shares on loan

VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS reported 479.2 million shares on loan at record dates against 75.69 billion shares voted: 0.63% of the two together. Median fund registrant: 0.00%. Shares lent out at the record date cannot be voted by the lender, which is why Form N-PX asks for the figure. More on lending and votes.

Fund series in this filing

11 series reported votes. A vote record can list several series. Series with 500 or more vote records have their own page.

SeriesVote recordsAgainst managementSay-on-pay supportShareholder-proposal support
VANGUARD HIGH DIVIDEND YIELD INDEX FUND36,49033.2%93.9%30.0%
VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL HIGH DIVIDEND YIELD INDEX FUND25,3998.0%not reported38.5%
VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL EXPLORER FUND4,9776.8%77.8%7.8%
VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL DIVIDEND APPRECIATION INDEX FUND4,5256.0%100.0%16.8%
VANGUARD GLOBAL MINIMUM VOLATILITY FUND2,9262.4%98.9%6.7%
VANGUARD SELECTED VALUE FUND1,6902.6%95.7%20.6%
VANGUARD ADVICE SELECT GLOBAL VALUE FUND1,5444.0%92.2%19.4%
VANGUARD INTERNATIONAL DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND7782.7%100.0%not reported
VANGUARD MID-CAP GROWTH FUND5893.8%92.2%28.6%
VANGUARD ADVICE SELECT DIVIDEND GROWTH FUND5786.1%87.9%22.5%
VANGUARD ADVICE SELECT INTERNATIONAL GROWTH FUND4771.9%95.8%20.0%

The filings

These figures are read from the filer's own Form N-PX. If a vote on this page looks wrong, the filing is the record: a dispute about a filed vote is a matter for the filer, and an error in how this site read the filing is a matter for corrections.

Questions

How did VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS vote on executive pay?

In the year to 30 June 2026 VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS reported 3,106 votes in the category SECTION 14A SAY-ON-PAY VOTES that were cast for, against or abstain. 2,895 were for (93.2%), 189 against and 22 abstentions. Counting one item per company meeting, it voted against management on 24 of the 772 say-on-pay items it marked either way.

How often does VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS vote against management?

21.2% of the time in the year to 30 June 2026: 19,647 of the 92,557 votes it marked as for or against management. Form N-PX asks each filer to state, vote by vote, whether the vote was for or against management's recommendation; this figure counts those marks.

Did VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS support shareholder proposals on climate?

In the category ENVIRONMENT OR CLIMATE it reported 418 votes on proposals from security holders in the year to 30 June 2026 and voted for 72 of them (17.2%). Across every category it voted for 37.6% of security-holder proposals. Filers choose the category for each vote, so the same proposal can sit in different categories in different filings.

Is this the result of the meetings?

No. Form N-PX shows how this filer voted the shares it held. It does not show how other shareholders voted or whether a proposal was approved. Companies report certified results separately, on Form 8-K.

Where does the data come from?

From the Form N-PX filings of this filer on the SEC's EDGAR system, read as filed. The SEC does not verify the contents. Amended filings (N-PX/A) replace the filings they amend. Data on this page runs through 23 Sep 2026.

Provenance: SEC EDGAR, Form N-PX and N-PX/A filings by VANGUARD WHITEHALL FUNDS (filer no. 1004655), read as filed and not verified by the SEC. Amended filings replace the filings they amend. Filings read through 23 Sep 2026; page built 26 Sep 2026.