Good day, and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Range Resources Corporation annual shareholder meeting. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. To ask a question during the session, you'll need to press star one on your telephone. Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. If you require assistance during the conference, please press star zero. I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, David Poole.
Thank you, Daniel, and thank you for attending the Range Resources Corporation annual stockholder meeting. I'm David Poole, the company's Corporate Secretary. We're pleased to conduct this meeting telephonically to provide you with access to our meeting this year without the need to travel. As you know, if you've attended any of our prior shareholder meetings, we have a very short formal meeting with a few minutes for questions about the meeting itself at the end. For any other questions about the company, our IR team is, as always, available to speak to you. At this time, I'll turn the meeting over to Greg Maxwell, our Chairman of the Board.
Thank you, David, and good morning. Welcome to the 2022 annual meeting of the stockholders of Range Resources Corporation. I'm Greg Maxwell, and I have the privilege of serving you as chairman of the board. Joining us today are my fellow board members, Brenda Cline, Margaret Dorman, Jim Funk, Steve Gray, Reggie Spiller, and Jeff Ventura, who is also our CEO. We also have representatives of our independent auditing firm, Ernst & Young, on the call. Joining us on the call is Andrea Lovelady and Michael Kinney. On behalf of the entire board, I want to thank you for voting your proxy. Our board appreciates every opportunity to hear from our fellow stockholders, and I assure you that the board carefully considers the results of each year's proxy vote in making decisions about our company. David Poole will serve as secretary and record the minutes of this meeting.
David also has been designated to serve as the inspector of election of this meeting and has confirmed that a quorum is present. I'll now turn it over to David.
Thank you. Under the company's bylaws, the board of directors set March 25th, 2022, as the record date for this meeting. Notice of the meeting was first mailed on April 1st, 2022. Upon request, we can make available an affidavit of mailing and a certified list of the company's stockholders. As of the record date, as compiled by the company's transfer agent, there were 252,336,037 shares of our common stock outstanding. Each outstanding share of common stock is entitled to one vote on the matters presented for a vote at this meeting. If anyone is attending this meeting and has a proxy that they wish to vote during the meeting, please do so by emailing me at the address dpoole@rangeresources.com or by text message to 817-980-4254.
Please provide a copy or image of your proxy card with your vote reflected on it, and your vote will be added to the tally of the votes at this meeting. Mr. Maxwell.
Thank you, David. The proposals to be considered at this meeting are proposal one, the election of seven directors to serve on the board until the next annual meeting planned for May 2023. Since it is an uncontested election, the stockholders will elect directors by a majority vote as provided by the company's bylaws. The directors who have been nominated are the present directors of the company, including Reginald Spiller , who was appointed to the board in the fall of 2021. As we do annually, proposal two is to consider and vote on a non-binding proposal regarding the company's executive compensation philosophy, also referred to as say-on-pay. The third proposal is to ratify the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as the registered public accounting firm for our 2022 fiscal year.
The fourth matter is to seek approval of the amendment to the company's 2019 equity plan to add additional shares to those currently available under the plan. David?
Yes, sir. Now votes that have been cast at the meeting, and there are over 229,761,000 shares of common stock represented at this meeting, which is just over 91% of the record date outstanding common stock of the company. In the voting for directors, the vote in favor was in excess of 97% for each individual director. In the voting on the say-on-pay proposal, over 97.9% of the votes were cast in favor. With approval of over 99.5% of the votes cast, Ernst & Young was ratified as the company's registered public accounting firm for 2022. In the voting regarding the equity plan, the votes in favor were 95.7%. Mr. Maxwell.
Thank you, David. There being no further formal business to conduct, the meeting is adjourned. If you have any questions, we will take them now. As I mentioned before, we would appreciate you directing your questions to the matters addressed during our meeting. Operator, please let attendees know how to present a question.
As a reminder, to ask a question, you will need to press star one on your telephone. To withdraw your question, press the pound key. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Mr. Chairman, if you have a question at this time, please press the star and then the number one key.
Mr. Chairman, it does not appear that we have any questions for our attendees.
Very good. Thanks, David. There being no further questions, I would like to thank you for attending our stockholder meeting and for your interest in and support of the company. Thank you.
This concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may now disconnect.