Good afternoon. I am Brian Anderson, the Chief Legal Officer of Belden Inc. As we did last year, we have elected to conduct our meeting virtually to allow for broader attendance without the need of travel to the meeting site. We thank everyone for joining us today. On the line, in listen-only mode, are all the members of our board of directors and our senior leadership team. Also joining us today are representatives from Ernst & Young, our independent registered public accounting firm, and Broadridge, our vote tabulator and inspector of elections. At this time, I would like to call the meeting to order. For stockholders who had joined the online portal by utilizing the control number contained in your proxy materials, you now have access to the voting functionality and the question-and-answer tool. You may use the latter to submit questions for the company.
During the annual meeting, questions from stockholders should pertain to the proposals being considered at that particular time. Questions pertaining to topics outside of the meeting proposals will be addressed after the meeting. On March 25th, 2026, the record date for this annual meeting, there were outstanding and entitled to vote a total of 38,933,406 shares of common stock. I have been informed by the Inspector of Election that there are 37,538,497 shares of stock represented by proxy, or approximately 96% of all the shares entitled to vote at this annual meeting. The shares so represented exceed 50% of the total shares entitled to vote at this meeting and thus constitute a quorum. As previously noted, the polls for voting on all matters are open. All Belden stockholders entitled to vote at this meeting have the ability to do so online.
If you are a stockholder entitled to vote and have not yet voted, or if you want to change your previously cast vote, please do so via the website used to access this meeting. Please remember that if you have already voted by proxy, it is not necessary to vote again. After voting has been completed on all matters on the agenda, we will close the polls, and the Inspector of Election will provide her preliminary report.
We will now move to a review of the proposals. The first proposal to come before the meeting is the election of directors. At this meeting, we will be electing 10 continuing directors for a one-year term expiring at the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders. The nominees are David Aldrich, Adel Al-Saleh, Lance C. Balk, Diane Brink, Judy L. Brown, Nancy Calderon, Ashish Chand, Jonathan Klein, YY Lee, and Gregory J. McCray.
Information concerning their principal occupations, service as Belden board members, skills and qualifications, and other matters which may be of interest are contained in the proxy statement. No other nominations were received prior to the deadline established in the company's bylaws, therefore, no additional nominations may be made at this meeting, and I declare the nominations to be closed. The next matter to come before the meeting is the ratification of the appointment of Ernst & Young, or EY, as the company's independent registered public accounting firm. The board of directors recommends the ratification of the appointment of EY to serve as the company's independent registered public accounting firm and to audit the company's financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2026.
Proposal 3 asks stockholders to approve an advisory resolution on the fiscal year 2025 compensation of the named executive officers, all as described in our proxy statement. This proposal is advisory. Although non-binding, the vote will provide information to our compensation committee and our board of directors regarding investor sentiment about our executive compensation philosophy, policies, and practices, which our compensation committee and our board of directors will consider when making future executive compensation decisions.
Proposal 4 seeks stockholder approval of the amended and restated 2021 Belden Inc. Long Term Incentive Plan. As described in our proxy statement, the full extent of the amendments is a replenishment of the plan share reserve to provide for 3.25 million additional shares, which matches the original number of shares authorized by the plan in 2021. Voting will end shortly. If you have not yet voted and intend to do so, please do so now.
I will pause for a moment to see if any questions related to the proposals have been posed. Seeing none, we will move forward with the meeting. Now that everyone has had the opportunity to vote, I will ask our friends at Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. to close the polls. Based on the voting through last night, I can announce the preliminary results. Each of the nominees for director received a clear majority of the votes cast in favor of his or her election and has been elected as a director of the company to serve for a one-year term that will expire in 2027.
The ratification of the appointment of EY as the company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal 2026 has been ratified. The advisory resolution on the compensation of our named executive officers for fiscal 2025 has been approved, and the amended and restated 2021 Belden Inc. Long Term Incentive Plan has been approved.
We will file the final report of the Inspector Election with the records of this meeting. The final results of the voting will appear in a Form 8-K to be filed with the SEC within four business days of this meeting. This concludes the business for the meeting. The meeting is now adjourned. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you again for attending today's meeting and thank you for your continued support of Belden. We hope you have a great afternoon.