WOOL growers have voted for fewer elections.

At the Australian Wool Innovation annual general meeting in Sydney today, grower/levypayers voted that elections of board members be held every two years rather than annually.

The vote at today AWI annual meeting in Sydney saw an 86.8 per cent endorsement for the constitutional change.

The change required a minimum 75 per cent.

AWI chairman Wal Merriman said the vote was a show of confidence in AWI.

For WoolProducers and its state affiliates who opposed the change, the vote was a disappointing.

"It just shows how much support those bodies have," Mr Merriman said.

WoolProducers president Don Hamblin had argued that change would have extended the term of a director to as many as six years.

Under AWI election process, a third of the directors had be required to retire annually.

That interval has now been extended to two years.

Australian Wool Growers Association chairman Martin Oppenheimer was pleased with the rsult.

Mr Oppenhiemer said the result was consistent with what his association and the AWI's enorsement of the WoolPoll 2 per cent levy vote.

According to the poll scrutineer Link, 3920 or 13 per cent of the AWI 29,000 eligible voters participated in in the AWI election and constitution vote.