Result of AGM

Weir Group PLC
07 May 2008


THE WEIR GROUP PLC

                                                                      7 May 2008

Voting Results


The Annual General Meeting of The Weir Group PLC was held on Wednesday 7 May
2008 at 11 am. All resolutions were passed on a poll via electronic voting.
Resolutions 1-10, 15 and 16 being passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions
11-14 being passed as special resolutions.

 No.   Resolution   No. of votes  Percentage No. of votes  Percentage No. of votes
                      for the      of votes   against the   of votes    withheld
                     resolution    received   resolution    received

  1   To receive    117,596,981      99.37       746,667       0.63      277,951
      and adopt
      the
      financial
      statements
      for the 52
      weeks ended
      28 December
      2007, and
      the reports
      of the
      directors
      and auditors
      thereon

  2   To declare a  118,621,599     100.00             0       0.00            0
      dividend

  3   To approve    111,927,568      94.89     6,028,771       5.11      665,259
      the
      Remuneration
      Committee
      Report as
      set out in
      the annual
      report for
      the 52 weeks
      ended 28
      December
      2007

  4   To re-elect   117,882,795      99.38       730,524       0.62        8,280
      Christopher
      Clark as a
      director

  5   To re-elect   117,786,058      99.31       814,823       0.69       20,718
      Stephen King
      as a
      director

  6   To re-elect   116,803,376      98.47     1,808,948       1.53        9,275
      Mark Selway
      as a
      director

  7   To re-elect   115,666,590      98.66     1,566,750       1.34    1,389,337
      Prof. Ian
      Percy as a
      director

  8   To            116,189,066      99.10     1,056,658       0.90    1,376,953
      re-appoint
      Ernst &
      Young LLP as
      auditors

  9   To authorise  117,993,933      99.49       607,566       0.51       18,179
      the
      directors to
      fix the
      remuneration
      of the
      auditors

 10   To renew the  117,463,280      99.06     1,119,385       0.94       36,876
      directors'
      general
      authority to
      allot
      relevant
      securities

 11   To disapply,  118,465,797      99.92        92,182       0.08       62,062
      within
      certain
      limits, the
      statutory
      pre-emption
      rights
      arising on
      the
      allotment of
      shares

 12   To renew the  118,492,274      99.92        95,106       0.08       34,498
      Company's
      power to
      purchase its
      own shares

 13   To amend the  115,976,058      99.48       605,771       0.52    1,649,411
      Articles of
      Association

 14   To amend the  118,406,690      99.87       157,451       0.13       55,816
      Articles of
      Association

 15   To amend the  112,125,141      94.95     5,967,527       5.05      530,009
      rules of the
      Weir Group
      LTIP

 16   To approve a   97,418,075      85.37    16,691,239      14.63    4,510,588
      conditional
      award
      agreement

a)       Any proxy appointments which give discretion to the Chairman have been
included in the 'for' total.
b)       At close of business on 6 May 2008 there were 209,967,947 relevant
shares in issue (excluding treasury shares).


A copy of the Resolutions passed has been submitted to the UK Listing Authority
and will shortly be available for inspection at the UK Listing Authority's
Document Viewing Facility, which is situated at:

The Financial Services Authority
25 The North Colonnade
Canary Wharf
London E14 5HS



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