Company: EVF
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001145443-25-000243
Chunk: 24

Company: Eaton Vance Senior Income Trust
Filing Date: 2025-08-22
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 24
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 towards establishing a quorum, as will broker non-votes. (Broker non-votes are shares for which (i) the beneficial owner has not voted and (ii) the broker holding the shares does not have discretionary authority to vote on the particular matter.) Accordingly, abstentions and broker non-votes, which will be treated as shares that are present at the Annual Meeting but which have not been voted, will assist the Fund in obtaining a quorum but will have no effect on the outcome of Proposal 1.

A quorum requires the presence, in person or by proxy, of a majority of the outstanding shares of the Fund entitled to vote. In the event that a quorum is not present at the Annual Meeting, or if a quorum is present at the Annual Meeting but sufficient votes by the shareholders of the Fund FOR the Proposal set forth in the Notice of this Annual Meeting are not received by that time on October 8, 2025, the persons named as proxies may propose one or more adjournments of the Annual Meeting to permit further solicitation of proxies. Any such adjournment will require the affirmative vote of the holders of a majority of the shares present in person or by proxy at the session of the Annual Meeting to be adjourned. The persons named as proxies will vote FOR such adjournment those proxies which they are entitled to vote FOR any Trustee nominee. They will vote against any such adjournment those proxies that voted “WITHHOLD AUTHORITY FOR ALL NOMINEES” (sometimes referred to as abstentions). The costs of any such additional solicitation and of any adjourned session will be borne by the Fund.

Pursuant to the Fund’s By-Laws, with respect to any election of Trustees other than a contested election, a nominee must receive the affirmative vote of a plurality of votes cast at any meeting at which a quorum is present to be elected. A plurality means that the Trustee nominee receiving the greatest number of votes will be elected. With respect to a contested election, a nominee must receive the affirmative vote of a majority of the Fund’s shares outstanding and entitled to vote with respect to such nominee in order to be elected. The By-Laws define a “contested election” as any election of Trustees in which the number of persons validly nominated for election as Trustees with respect to a given class or classes of Fund shares exceeds the number of Trustees to be elected with respect to such class or classes. See Proposal 1 for the vote required to elect Trustees at