Item 8.01 Other Events.

Annual Meeting Voting Results

At the close of business on February 18, 2009, the record date for the Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on April 28, 2009, there were 359,64,118 shares of common stock outstanding. At the meeting, the shareholders of the Registrant took the following actions, and cast the following votes:

1. elected the following individuals as directors of SunTrust:

Alston D. Correll
For - 275,407,756
Withheld/Abstain - 19,315,651

Patricia C. Frist
For - 275,107,092
Withheld/Abstain - 19,616,315

Blake P. Garrett, Jr.
For - 282,467,710
Withheld/Abstain - 12,255,696

David H. Hughes
For - 275,815,471
Withheld/Abstain - 18,907,935

M. Douglas Ivester
For - 280,654,927
Withheld/Abstain - 14,068,480

G. Gilmer Minor III
For - 275,461,305
Withheld/Abstain - 19,262,102

James M. Wells III
For - 278,895,686
Withheld/Abstain - 15,827,720

Karen Hastie Williams
For - 264,307,975
Withheld/Abstain - 30,415,431

2. ratified the appointment of Ernst & Young LLP as independent auditors of SunTrust for 2009:

For
288,675,868

Against
3,030,469

Abstain
3,017,070

Broker Non Votes
N/A

3. approved the SunTrust Banks, Inc. 2009 Stock Plan:

For
211,565,329

Against
25,176,404

Abstain
2,869,869

Broker Non Votes
55,111,805

4. and approved the non-binding advisory vote ("say-on-pay") resolution approving the compensation of the Company's executives as described in the Summary Compensation Table as well as in the Compensation Discussion and Analysis and the other executive compensation tables and related discussion.

For
203,866,202

Against
85,105,176

Abstain
5,752,028

Broker Non Votes
N/A

In addition to the directors named above who were elected at the meeting, the terms of the following directors will continue until the annual meeting of shareholders in 2010:
Robert M. Beall, II,
Jeffrey C. Crowe,
J. Hicks Lanier,
Larry L. Prince,
Frank S. Royal, M.D., and
Phail Wynn, Jr.

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