The independent inspectors of El Paso Corp.’s annual shareholder meeting in June have certified that the incumbent board of directors’ nominees were re-elected, verifying earlier announcements by the Houston-based company.

IVS Associates Inc. certified the election, announcing that board incumbent John L. Whitmire had captured the most votes with 231,890,432. The incumbent with the lowest number of votes was Malcolm Wallop, with 220,130,651. On the dissident slate, John J. Murphy captured the most shareholder votes with 202,930,257. Selim K. Zilkha, who had led the dissidents in their attempt to take over El Paso, had the least amount of votes with 115,849,899.

Shareholders also ratified all of the incumbent board’s proposals at the meeting, which included the appointment of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as the company’s public accountants for this year. Only one of the dissidents’ proposals was approved, “purporting to establish the sequence for presentation of proposals at the annual meeting.” Also surviving was one shareholder proposal requesting that El Paso redeem “any poison pill and seek shareholder approval prior to the adoption of any new poison pill.”

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