Total Voting Rights

HSBC Holdings PLC
29 December 2006

HSBC Holdings plc

Voting Rights and Capital

The following notification is made in accordance with transitional provision 6
to the Disclosure and Transparency Rules implementing the EU Transparency
Directive.

On 28 December 2006, the issued share capital of HSBC Holdings plc with voting
right is 11,572,176,483 ordinary shares of US$0.50.  No shares are held in
Treasury.

Therefore, the total number of voting rights in HSBC Holdings plc is
11,572,176,483.

The above figure for the total number of voting rights (11,572,176,483) may be
used by shareholders as the denominator for the calculations by which they will
determine if they are required to notify their interest in, or a change to their
interest in, HSBC Holdings plc under the FSA's Disclosure and Transparency
Rules.


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