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Vanguard Explorer Fund proxy voting record
Vanguard Explorer Fund 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 Explorer Fund on 2025-08-27 · open the filing · vote table (ProxyVotingTable.xml, 6.8 MB)
How it voted, by issue
Proposals are grouped by the subject the filer itself recorded. On management's own executive pay resolutions, this fund voted in favour 93.4% of the time across 1,042 votes.
| Issue | Proposals faced | Backed | Share backed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Climate & environment | 7 | 1 | 14.3% |
| Workers & human rights | 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Pay equity & inclusion | 5 | 0 | 0% |
| Executive pay | 4 | 0 | 0% |
| Corporate governance | 40 | 22 | 55% |
| Other social issues | 6 | 2 | 33.3% |
Ballots it voted
BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings, Inc. · 19 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should BJ's Wholesale Club Holdings 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 Explorer Fund voted with 501,100 shares
“Vote on a shareholder proposal regarding a report on greenhouse gas emissions reduction efforts, if properly presented at the meeting.”
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SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
The Timken Company · 2 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Climate & environment
Should Timken 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 Explorer Fund voted with 294,306 shares
“Consideration of a shareholder proposal requesting that the Company adopt independently verified short- and medium-term science-based greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets, inclusive of emissions from its full value chain.”
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SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
Lyft, Inc. · 5 June 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
Should Lyft account for how it builds and uses AI?
Shareholders asked for a report on the company’s use of artificial intelligence — where its training data comes from and on what terms, how the board oversees the risk, and what the technology is doing to the accuracy of what users see.
AGAINST Vanguard Explorer Fund voted with 1,450,131 shares
“Stockholder proposal regarding an assessment of Lyft's use of artificial intelligence, if properly presented at the meeting.”
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SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
Microchip Technology Incorporated · 20 August 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Workforce & human rights
That our Board of Directors commission an independent third-party report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, on our due diligence process to determine whether our customers' use of our products contribute or are linked to violations of international law.
AGAINST Vanguard Explorer Fund voted with 278,540 shares
“Stockholder proposal requesting that our Board of Directors commission an independent third-party report, at reasonable expense and excluding proprietary information, on our due diligence process to determine whether our customers' use of our products contribute or are linked to violations of intern”
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SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
Levi Strauss & Co. · 23 April 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
AGAINST Vanguard Explorer Fund voted with 4,310,541 shares
“Shareholder proposal, if properly presented at the meeting, requesting Levi Strauss & Co. cease DEI efforts.”
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SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
Texas Roadhouse, Inc. · 15 May 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Pay equity & inclusion
Should Texas Roadhouse 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 Explorer Fund voted with 409,867 shares
“An Advisory Vote on a Shareholder Proposal Regarding the Adoption of a Policy Requiring the Disclosure of Texas Roadhouse's Consolidated EEO-1 Report”
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SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
PulteGroup, Inc. · 30 April 2025 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should PulteGroup be able to take back pay awarded on results that turn out to be wrong?
Shareholders asked the board to strengthen its clawback policy, so that bonuses and share awards can be recovered when they were earned on misstated results or on conduct that later causes the company harm.
AGAINST Vanguard Explorer Fund voted with 14,352 shares
“Shareholder proposal on amendment to clawback policy on unearned incentive pay, if properly presented at the meeting.”
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SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
Texas Pacific Land Corporation · 8 November 2024 · put on the ballot by shareholder · Executive pay
Should Texas Pacific Land be able to take back pay awarded on results that turn out to be wrong?
Shareholders asked the board to strengthen its clawback policy, so that bonuses and share awards can be recovered when they were earned on misstated results or on conduct that later causes the company harm.
AGAINST Vanguard Explorer Fund voted with 8,217 shares
“To consider a non-binding stockholder proposal regarding an amendment to the Company's Clawback Policy.”
The column headers and this one row, lifted unaltered out of EDGAR’s rendering of the filing.
SourceVanguard Explorer Fund, Form N-PX filed 2025-08-27 · accession 0001104659-25-083377 · series S000002578 · open the filing
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