TELUS Announces Election of Directors

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA -- (Marketwired) -- 05/05/16 -- TELUS Corporation (TELUS) (TSX: T)(NYSE: TU) announced today that the nominees listed in the information circular dated March 9, 2016 were elected as directors of TELUS. The detailed results of the vote for the election of directors held at TELUS' Annual General Meeting on May 5, 2016 (the Meeting) are set out below.

Each of the following 12 nominees proposed by management was elected as a director of TELUS:

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                                                          Votes     % Votes
Nominee                     Votes For % Votes For      Withheld    Withheld
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R.H. (Dick) Auchinleck    321,013,734       98.43%    5,117,294        1.57%
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Micheline Bouchard        323,885,853       99.31%    2,234,416        0.69%
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Raymond T. Chan           323,697,585       99.26%    2,418,037        0.74%
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Stockwell Day             323,007,520       99.04%    3,114,988        0.96%
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Lisa De Wilde             325,585,877       99.84%      533,541        0.16%
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Darren Entwistle          324,526,915       99.51%    1,610,612        0.49%
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Mary Jo Haddad            325,532,331       99.82%      590,189        0.18%
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John S. Lacey             306,148,889       93.87%   19,978,492        6.13%
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William A. MacKinnon      325,683,887       99.86%      444,503        0.14%
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John Manley               324,529,750       99.51%    1,601,191        0.49%
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Sarabjit (Sabi) Marwah    325,494,189       99.81%      611,232        0.19%
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David L. Mowat            325,534,384       99.82%      591,217        0.18%
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All matters voted on at the Meeting were approved as follows:

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                                                           Votes    % Votes
                                                        Withheld   Withheld
Matter                        Votes For % Votes For    / Against  / Against
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Appointment of auditors     328,482,066       99.43%   1,892,374       0.57%
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Reconfirmation of
 Shareholder Rights Plan    311,992,483       95.66%  14,138,507       4.34%
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Accept Company's approach
 to executive compensation  293,180,274       89.90%  32,948,567      10.10%
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Final voting results on all matters voted on at the Meeting will be published shortly on www.telus.com/agm, and filed with the Canadian and U.S. securities regulators.

About TELUS

TELUS (TSX: T)(NYSE: TU) is Canada's fastest-growing national telecommunications company, with $12.6 billion of annual revenue and 12.4 million subscriber connections, including 8.4 million wireless subscribers, 1.4 million residential network access lines, 1.6 million high-speed Internet subscribers and 1.0 million TELUS TV customers. TELUS provides a wide range of communications products and services, including wireless, data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, television, entertainment and video, and is Canada's largest healthcare IT provider.

For more information about TELUS, please visit telus.com.

Contacts:
Shawn Hall
TELUS Media Relations
(604) 619-7913
[email protected]

Source: TELUS Corporation

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