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Shareholder Meeting Results (Unaudited)
iSHARES® TRUST

Two separate special meetings of shareholders of iShares Trust were held on November 4, 2009. The shareholder meetings for the iShares FTSE NAREIT Industrial/Office Capped and iShares FTSE NAREIT Retail Capped Index Funds were adjourned until November 19, 2009.  The proposals acted upon by shareholders at the special meetings and the results of the shareholder vote were as follows:

First Meeting

Shareholders of the Funds approved Proposal 1.  Proposal 2 did not apply to the Funds.

Proposal 1
To approve a new investment advisory agreement between the Trust and BGFA, on behalf of each Fund, which took effect upon the consummation of the Barclays PLC binding agreement to sell its interest in BGFA and certain affiliated companies to BlackRock, Inc. (the “Transaction”).


iShares Index Fund
Votes
For
Votes
Against
Votes
Abstaining
Broker
Non-Votes *
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Asia
305,902
1,072
8,308
-
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Europe
176,848
1,315
1,468
-
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Real Estate ex-U.S.
7,804,841
169,855
102,341
-
FTSE EPRA/NAREIT North America
78,166
1,732
90
-
FTSE NAREIT Industrial/Office Capped
131,407
2,865
1,775
-
FTSE NAREIT Mortgage Plus Capped
1,325,588
29,867
21,685
199,621
FTSE NAREIT Real Estate 50
426,587
2,967
13,818
48,023
FTSE NAREIT Residential Plus Capped
517,619
7,740
11,101
-
FTSE NAREIT Retail Capped
75,700
1,856
2,002
9,012


Proposal 2
To approve a change in the classification of certain funds’ investment objective from a fundamental investment policy to a non-fundamental investment policy.


Second Meeting

This proposal was approved by the shareholders of the Trust.  All nominees who previously served as Trustees of the Trust were re-elected and the term of their election commenced immediately.  Robert S. Kapito was newly elected as a Trustee to the Trust and the term of his election took effect upon the consummation of the Transaction.

Proposal 1**
To elect a Board of Trustees of the Trust.


Independent Trustee
Votes For
Votes Withheld
George G.C. Parker
3,275,616,398
76,114,140
J. Darrell Duffie
3,155,645,073
196,085,465
Cecilia H. Herbert
3,284,632,277
67,098,261
Charles A. Hurty
3,283,313,465
68,417,073
John E. Kerrigan
3,285,163,741
66,566,797
John E. Martinez
3,284,826,244
66,904,294
Robert H. Silver
3,294,357,381
57,373,157


Interested Trustee
Votes For
Votes Withheld
Robert S. Kapito
3,229,642,767
122,087,770
Lee T. Kranefuss
2,147,369,285
1,204,361,252

 
 
*
Broker non-votes are proxies received by the Fund from brokers or nominees who did not receive instructions from the beneficial owner or other persons entitled to vote and who have no discretionary power to vote on a particular matter.  Broker non-votes have the effect of a vote against the proposal.

  **           Denotes Trust-wide proposal and voting results.