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TORONTO, May 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ - Manulife Financial Corporation (Manulife) announced today that the nominees listed in the management information circular dated March 9, 2016 were each elected as a director at the Annual Meeting held earlier today in Toronto. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors are set out below.



    NAME OF
     NOMINEE       VOTES FOR               %         VOTES                %
                                                    WITHHELD
    ---                                             --------

    Joseph P.
     Caron                   1,060,903,983   96.76%           35,499,214     3.24%
    ---------                -------------    -----            ----------      ----

    John M.
     Cassaday                  961,881,120   87.73%          134,523,523    12.27%
    ---------                  -----------    -----           -----------     -----

    Susan F.
     Dabarno                 1,061,164,382   96.79%           35,238,463     3.21%
    --------                 -------------    -----            ----------      ----

    Richard B.
     DeWolfe                 1,090,240,756   99.44%            6,164,392     0.56%
    ----------               -------------    -----             ---------      ----

    Sheila S.
     Fraser                  1,085,246,372   98.98%           11,160,036     1.02%
    ---------                -------------    -----            ----------      ----

    Donald A.
     Guloien                 1,092,191,120   99.62%            4,208,558     0.38%
    ---------                -------------    -----             ---------      ----

    Luther S.
     Helms                   1,088,069,216   99.24%            8,335,044     0.76%
    ---------                -------------    -----             ---------      ----

    Tsun-yan Hsieh           1,059,238,791   96.61%           37,163,864     3.39%
    --------------           -------------    -----            ----------      ----

    P. Thomas
     Jenkins                 1,088,968,351   99.32%            7,437,911     0.68%
    ---------                -------------    -----             ---------      ----

    Pamela O.
     Kimmet                  1,062,661,238   96.92%           33,744,427     3.08%
    ---------                -------------    -----            ----------      ----

    Donald R.
     Lindsay                 1,091,588,713   99.56%            4,817,454     0.44%
    ---------                -------------    -----             ---------      ----

    John R. V.
     Palmer                  1,091,247,141   99.53%            5,157,886     0.47%
    ----------               -------------    -----             ---------      ----

    C. James
     Prieur                  1,059,754,328   96.66%           36,650,930     3.34%
    --------                 -------------    -----            ----------      ----

    Andrea S.
     Rosen                   1,092,688,219   99.66%            3,716,221     0.34%
    ---------                -------------    -----             ---------      ----

    Lesley D.
     Webster                 1,060,504,693   96.73%           35,899,295     3.27%
    ---------                -------------    -----            ----------      ----

Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Annual Meeting will be available shortly on our website and will be filed with Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About Manulife

Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services group providing forward-thinking solutions to help people with their big financial decisions. We operate as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife elsewhere. We provide financial advice, insurance and wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2015, we had approximately 34,000 employees, 63,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving 20 million customers. At the end of March 2016, we had $904 billion (US$697 billion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made more than $24.9 billion in benefits, interest and other payments to our customers. Our principal operations are in Asia, Canada and the United States where we have served customers for more than 100 years. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in Hong Kong. Follow Manulife on Twitter @ManulifeNews or visit http://www.manulife.comor www.johnhancock.com.

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