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Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund (VIG) proxy voting record 2026
Three of its ballots from this season. Vote first, then see what it did with the shares your savings paid for.
The question on the ballot
As filed
Vanguard Specialized Funds files this fund's proxy votes with the SEC once a year. This is what it did with the shares your retirement savings paid for.
SourceProxy-voting record filed by Vanguard Specialized Funds on 2026-08-27 · open the filing
TickersVIG (ETF Shares), VDADX (Admiral Shares) · share classes of one fund, with one proxy-voting record · as listed in its latest SEC filing of proxy votes
How it voted, by issue
Fund companies sometimes file the same proposal under different subjects. So that funds can be compared, each proposal is counted under the subject most of the filings we read gave it, the same for every fund on this site. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 98.8% of the time across 257 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 30 | 0 | 0% |
| Workers & human rights | 6 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 1 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 84 | 2 | 2.4% |
| Other social issues | 28 | 0 | 0% |
On 11 of the 4,003 ballot items in its filing, 2 of them shareholder proposals, part of this fund’s shares was cast a different way from the rest: 381,690 shares in all, 0.004% of the shares it voted. Every figure here counts the way most of its shares were cast.
Its filing lists 45 ballot items, 3 of them shareholder proposals, more than once, with different share counts (100 rows in all): parts of this fund’s shares were voted separately. Each such item is counted once here, with all of its shares, the way most of them were cast.
Its filing also lists 15,483 separately voted blocks, 1.70% of the shares it voted: the shares of investors who chose their own voting policy under Vanguard Investor Choice. The figures here count the fund’s own vote. How Investor Choice shows up in the filings →
Ballots it voted
The Coca-Cola Company · 29 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Coca-Cola report on the single-use plastic it puts into the world?
Shareholders asked for a report on how much single-use plastic packaging the company uses, the risks that creates as regulation tightens, and what it plans to do to reduce it.
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 20,985,861 shares
“Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report evaluating the Company's plastics packaging policies”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
JPMorgan Chase & Co. · 19 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should JPMorgan Chase publish a fuller account of its emissions and how it plans to cut them?
Shareholders asked the company to disclose its greenhouse gas emissions more completely, or to have its reduction targets independently assessed, so that the plan can be checked rather than taken on trust.
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 13,646,547 shares
“Report on congruence of security, resiliency, and climate initiatives”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
Walmart Inc. · 4 June 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Walmart explain how its board oversees the safety of the people who work for it?
Shareholders asked for a report on how health and safety is actually governed — who on the board is accountable, what the company measures, how injuries and fatalities are counted, and whether contractors and temporary workers are covered by the same standards as employees.
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 23,992,575 shares
“Report on Workplace Health and Safety Governance”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
Microsoft Corporation · 5 December 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Microsoft assess the human rights risks its own operations create?
Shareholders asked for an assessment of the human rights risks arising from the company’s operations and business relationships, and for the findings to be published.
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 10,487,672 shares
“Report on Data Operations in Human Rights Hotspots”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
The Coca-Cola Company · 29 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Coca-Cola publish what its inclusion policies actually do for its workforce?
Shareholders asked for a report on the company’s LGBTQIA+ equity and inclusion efforts within its human capital management strategy — what the policies are, how they are measured, and what they have changed for employees.
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 20,985,861 shares
“Vote on a shareowner proposal requesting a report on the extent of the Company's diversity, equity and inclusion efforts”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
Fastenal Company · 23 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Fastenal publish the workforce breakdown it already files with the government?
Shareholders asked the company to publish its EEO-1 report — the table of employees by job category, race and sex that it is already required to submit to federal regulators — instead of keeping it confidential.
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 6,201,454 shares
“Shareholder proposal relating to an EEO-1 reporting disclosure policy, if properly presented at the annual meeting.”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
International Business Machines Corporation · 28 April 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
A Change to IBM's Outside Director Stock Ownership Guidelines
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 5,058,107 shares
“Stockholder Proposal Requesting a Change to IBM's Outside Director Stock Ownership Guidelines”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
Bank of America Corporation · 4 May 2026 · put on the ballot by shareholder
Should the person who runs Bank of America also chair the board that supervises them?
Shareholders asked the company to require that the chair of the board be an independent director rather than the chief executive, so that the body overseeing management is not led by the person being overseen.
AGAINST Vanguard Dividend Appreciation Index Fund voted with 34,927,717 shares
“Shareholder proposal requesting independent board chair”
SourceVanguard Specialized Funds · accession 0001104659-26-102060 · series S000011322 · open the filing
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