Result of AGM

THE WEIR GROUP PLC

                                                                      4 May 2011

Voting Results


The Annual General Meeting of The Weir Group PLC was held on Wednesday 4 May
2011 at 11 am.  All resolutions were passed on a poll via electronic voting.
 Resolutions 1 to 15 being passed as ordinary resolutions and resolutions 16 to
18 being passed as special resolutions.

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

1   To approve
    and adopt
    the                                                       141,763,107
    directors
    report and
    financial
    statements
    for the 52
    weeks ended
    31 December
    2010         141,579,765      99.87    183,342       0.13                10,973

2   To declare a                                              141,744,576
    dividend     141,734,864      99.99      9,712       0.01                31,504

3   To approve
    the                                                       135,620,878
    remuneration
    report for
    the 52 weeks
    ended 31
    December
    2010         134,567,390      99.22  1,053,488       0.78             6,155,202

4   To re-elect                                               140,474,973
    Lord Smith
    as a
    director     139,063,337      99.00  1,411,636       1.00             1,301,107

5   To re-elect                                               141,765,010
    Keith
    Cochrane as
    a director   137,179,123      96.77  4,585,887       3.23                11,070

6   To re-elect                                               141,753,593
    Michael
    Dearden as a
    director     141,312,561      99.69    441,032       0.31                22,487

7   To re-elect                                               141,759,172
    Stephen King
    as a
    director     141,353,882      99.71    405,290       0.29                16,908

8   To re-elect                                               141,749,896
    Richard
    Menell as a
    director     141,340,185      99.71    409,711       0.29                13,819

9   To re-elect                                               141,764,710
    Alan
    Mitchelson
    as a
    director     140,646,060      99.21  1,118,650       0.79                11,370

10  To re-elect                                               141,758,431
    John Mogford
    as a
    director     141,355,683      99.72    402,748       0.28                17,649

11  To re-elect                                               140,469,346
    Lord
    Robertson as
    a director   139,744,518      99.48    724,828       0.52             1,306,084

12  To re-elect                                               141,761,621
    Jon Stanton
    as a
    director     140,880,181      99.38    881,441       0.62                14,459

13  To re-                                                    141,759,455
    appoint
    Ernst &
    Young LLP as
    auditors     135,929,632      95.89  5,829,823       4.11                15,140

14  To authorise
    the                                                       141,720,866
    directors to
    fix the
    remuneration
    of the
    auditors     132,625,227      93.58  9,095,639       6.42                53,435

15  To renew the
    directors'                                                140,650,753
    general
    authority to
    allot
    relevant
    securities   139,100,461      98.90  1,550,292       1.10             1,110,040

16  To disapply,
    within
    certain                                                   141,726,317
    limits, the
    statutory
    pre-emption
    rights
    arising on
    the
    allotment of
    shares       141,514,694      99.85    211,623       0.15                49,184

17  To renew the
    Company's                                                 140,478,956
    power to
    purchase its
    own shares   140,137,418      99.76    341,538       0.24             1,296,545

18  To reduce
    the notice                                                141,741,930
    period for
    general
    meetings     132,905,968      93.77  8,835,962       6.23                32,371


 a. Any proxy appointments which give discretion to the Chairman have been
    included in the "for" total.
 b. At close of business on 3 May 2011 there were 211,272,162 relevant shares in
    issue (excluding treasury shares).


A copy of the Resolutions passed has been submitted and will shortly be
available for inspection at the National Storage Mechanism which is located at
www.Hemscott.com/nsm.do






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