Company: MSEX
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001174947-25-000561
Chunk: 7

Company: MIDDLESEX WATER CO
Filing Date: 2025-04-10
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 7
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 entitled to vote and present or represented by proxy | No                   |
| Proposal 3  - Ratification of auditors for 2025      | Majority of the shares entitled to vote and present or represented by proxy | Yes                  |

With respect to Proposal 1, the election of three Directors, you may vote FOR ALL, WITHHOLD ALL or FOR ALL EXCEPT and indicate any nominee for which you withhold authority to vote. Directors are elected by a plurality of votes cast by shareholders present in person or represented by proxy at the Annual Meeting, and entitled to vote on the election of Directors. With respect to Proposals 2 and 3, (or any other matter to be voted at the Annual Meeting), you may vote FOR, AGAINST or ABSTAIN. The approval of the non-binding advisory vote regarding the compensation of our Named Executive Officers (Proposal 2) requires that the votes cast in favor of the proposal exceed the number of votes cast against the proposal. The ratification of the appointment by the Audit Committee of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (Proposal 3) requires that the votes cast in favor of the ratification exceed the number of votes opposing the ratification.

| 11. | How does the Board recommend I vote? |

The Board of Directors recommends that you vote:

| • | FOR the election of the three Directors nominated by the Board and named in this Proxy Statement; |

| • | FOR the approval, on a non-binding advisory basis, of the compensation of our Named Executive Officers; and |

| 12. | How are abstentions and broker non-votes counted? |

For purposes of determining the votes cast with respect to any matter presented for consideration at the Annual Meeting, only those votes cast “for” or “against” are included. As described above, where brokers do not have discretion to vote or did not exercise such discretion, the inability or failure to vote is referred to as a “broker non-vote.” Proxies marked as abstaining, and any proxies returned by brokers as “non-votes” on behalf of shares held in street name because beneficial owners’ discretion has been withheld as to one or more matters to be acted upon at the Annual Meeting, will be treated as present for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present at the Annual Meeting. Broker non-votes and withheld votes will not be included in the vote total for the proposal to elect the nominees for Director and will not affect the outcome of the vote for these proposals. In addition, under New Jersey corporation