OREANDA-NEWS. CN (TSX: CNR) (NYSE: CNI) announced today that the nominees listed in the management proxy circular dated March 11, 2014, were elected as directors of CN. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at CN's Annual Meeting of Shareholders on April 23 in Vancouver are set out below.

Election of Directors

On a vote by ballot, each of the following 13 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of CN:

Nominee

Votes For

% For

Votes Withheld

% Withheld

A. Charles Baillie

578,279,246

99.46

3,158,792

0.54

Donald J. Carty

578,459,835

99.49

2,978,201

0.51

Amb. Gordon D. Giffin

564,920,591

97.16

16,517,118

2.84

Edith E. Holiday

577,675,687

99.35

3,762,348

0.65

V. Maureen Kempston Darkes

565,714,532

97.30

15,723,504

2.70

The Hon. Denis Losier

565,461,216

97.25

15,976,821

2.75

The Hon. Edward C. Lumley

579,803,483

99.72

1,634,553

0.28

The Hon. Kevin G. Lynch

580,180,808

99.78

1,257,228

0.22

Claude Mongeau

580,502,342

99.84

935,694

0.16

James E. O'Connor

564,808,898

97.14

16,629,140

2.86

Robert Pace

575,941,852

99.05

5,496,184

0.95

Robert L. Phillips

580,231,868

99.79

1,206,168

0.21

Laura Stein

580,225,150

99.79

1,212,886

0.21

Three of the directors are new to CN's board:

Kevin G. Lynch, vice-chair, BMO Financial Group, and a former clerk of the privy council, secretary to the cabinet, and head of the public service of Canada;

Robert L. Phillips, the President of R.L. Phillips Investments Inc. and a former president and chief executive officer of British Columbia Railway Company Ltd., and

Laura Stein, senior vice-president, general counsel, of The Clorox Company.

Robert Pace was also elected as chairman of the company's board of directors. Mr. Pace, who joined CN's board in 1994, is president and chief executive officer of The Pace Group Ltd., based in Halifax, N.S., which is engaged in radio broadcasting, real estate and environmental services.