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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
FORM 8-K
 
CURRENT REPORT PURSUANT TO
SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE

SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): May 17, 2013 (May 16, 2013)
 
LAREDO PETROLEUM HOLDINGS, INC.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)
 
Delaware
 
001-35380
 
45-3007926
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or
Organization)
 
(Commission File Number)
 
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
 
15 W. Sixth Street, Suite 1800, Tulsa, Oklahoma
 
74119
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
 
(Zip Code)
 
Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (918) 513-4570
 
Not Applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
 
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
 
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Item 5.07.  Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.
 
Laredo Petroleum Holdings, Inc. (the "Company") held its 2013 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the “Annual Meeting”) on May 16, 2013. At the Annual Meeting, the Company’s stockholders were requested to: (1) elect directors to serve on the Company’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) for a term of office expiring at the Company’s 2014 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until their respective successors are duly elected and qualified; (2) ratify the selection of Grant Thornton LLP as the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm for 2013; and (3) approve an advisory (non-binding) resolution regarding the compensation of the Company’s named executive officers. As of March 20, 2013, the record date for the Annual Meeting, there were 129,362,696 shares of common stock outstanding and entitled to vote at the Annual Meeting and a total of 125,469,361 (approximately 97%) were represented in person or by proxy at the Annual Meeting, constituting a quorum. The following are the final voting results on proposals considered and voted upon at the Annual Meeting, each of which is more fully described in the Company’s proxy statement filed on April 2, 2013:

1. Each of the Directors that were up for re-election or election was elected for a term of one year. Votes regarding the election of these directors were as follows:
NOMINEE
 
VOTES FOR
 
WITHHELD
 
BROKER NON-VOTES
Randy A. Foutch
 
122,167,497

 
347,953

 
2,953,911

Jerry R. Schuyler
 
122,112,520

 
402,930

 
2,953,911

Peter R. Kagan
 
105,094,452

 
17,420,998

 
2,953,911

James R. Levy
 
122,157,703

 
357,747

 
2,953,911

B.Z. (Bill) Parker
 
122,396,312

 
119,138

 
2,953,911

Pamela S. Pierce
 
122,346,399

 
169,051

 
2,953,911

Ambassador Francis Rooney
 
105,107,433

 
17,408,017

 
2,953,911

Dr. Myles W. Scoggins
 
122,377,608

 
137,842

 
2,953,911

Edmund P. Segner, III
 
122,377,208

 
138,242

 
2,953,911

Donald D. Wolf
 
122,341,934

 
173,516

 
2,953,911


2. Grant Thornton LLP was ratified as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for 2013. The voting results were as follows:
VOTES FOR
 
VOTES AGAINST
 
VOTES ABSTAINED
 
BROKER NON-VOTES
125,391,621

 
75,203

 
2,537

 
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3. The voting results for the advisory (non-binding) resolution regarding the compensation of the Company's named executive officers were as follows:
VOTES FOR
 
VOTES AGAINST
 
VOTES ABSTAINED
 
BROKER NON-VOTES
122,347,856

 
154,775

 
12,819

 
2,953,911



 



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SIGNATURES
 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
 
 
LAREDO PETROLEUM HOLDINGS, INC.
 
 
 
 
 
 
Dated: May 17, 2013
By:
/s/ KENNETH E. DORNBLASER
 
 
Kenneth E. Dornblaser
 
 
Senior Vice President and General Counsel



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