What Form N-PX is and who must file it

Form N-PX is the report in which funds tell the SEC, once a year, how they voted the shares they hold. It has existed since 2003. A rule change that took effect for reports filed from July 2024 turned it from free-form text into structured data and widened who must file.

Who files

• Registered management investment companies: mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and closed-end funds. They report every vote, in every category, for each fund series.
• Institutional investment managers that file Form 13F, meaning those with discretion over at least $100 million of listed securities. They report one kind of vote only: the say-on-pay votes required by section 14A of the Securities Exchange Act (executive pay, how often that vote is held, and pay tied to a merger). A manager with nothing to report files a short notice.

For the year to 30 June 2026, 11,856 filings were made; 5,455 carried votes, from 1,383 fund registrants and 3,568 managers. Season totals.

When

The reporting year runs from 1 July to 30 June and the form is due by 31 August. A filer can amend at any time with Form N-PX/A, which replaces what it amends.

What each vote record holds

• the company's name and a security identifier, and the meeting date;
• a description of the matter, in the filer's own words;
• one or more of fourteen fixed categories;
• whether the matter was put forward by the issuer or by a security holder;
• the number of shares voted and the number out on loan and not recalled;
• how the shares were voted, and whether that was for or against management's recommendation;
• for funds, which series cast the vote.

What it does not hold

The form has no field for why a vote was cast, none for the outcome of the meeting, and nothing about shares the filer did not hold at the record date. The SEC receives the form and publishes it; it does not check it.

Where to read one

Every filer page on this site links to the filings on EDGAR. The vote table is an XML file inside each filing; the largest run to about a hundred thousand records.