WOOL growers have voted for fewer elections.
In a change to Australian Wool Innovation's constitution, growers and levypayers have voted for elections be held every two years rather than annually.
The vote at the recent AWI annual meeting in Sydney saw an 86.8 per cent endorsement for the change.
The change required a minimum vote of 75 per cent.
Chairman Wal Merriman said the vote was a show of confidence in the company and the board.
For WoolProducers and its state affiliates which opposed the change, the vote was disappointing.
WoolProducers president Don Hamblin had argued that change would have extended the term of a director to as many as six years.
NSW WoolProducers executive member John Manwaring said he was stunned by the result, particularly as constitutional changes normally required full support from all organisations to be successful.
Under AWI's election process, a third of the directors are required to retire annually.
That interval has now been extended to two years.
Australian Wool Growers Association chairman Martin Oppenheimer was pleased with the result.
Mr Oppenheimer said the result was consistent with what his association wanted and the AWI's endorsement of the WoolPoll 2 per cent levy vote.
In other election results, Mr Merriman and fellow board members Roger Fletcher and Chick Olsson were re-elected unopposed.
According to the poll scrutineer, Link Management Services, 3920 or 13.5 per cent of AWI's 29,000 eligible voters participated in the AWI election and constitution vote
This participation compares with last year's 19 per cent when those opposed to the 2010 mulesing deadline won control of the AWI board.
