UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
FORM N-PX
ANNUAL REPORT OF PROXY VOTING RECORD OF REGISTERED MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANY
Investment Company Act file number 811-21725
Tortoise Energy Capital Corporation
(Exact Name of Registrant as specified in charter)
11550 Ash Street, Suite 300, Leawood, KS 66211
(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip code)
David J. Schulte, 11550 Ash Street, Suite 300, Leawood, KS 66211
(Name and Address of Agent For Service)
Registrant's telephone number, including area code: 913-981-1020
Date of fiscal year end: November 30
Date of reporting period: June 30, 2009
Item 1. Proxy Voting Record
Company Name | Meeting Date | CUSIP | Ticker |
| Capital Product Partners, L.P. | 7/25/2008 | Y11082107 | CPLP |
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Vote | For/Against Management | Proposal | Proposed by Issuer or Security Holder |
| For | For | 1. To elect Robert P. Curt as a Class I director to serve until the 2011 Annual Meeting of Limited Partners. | Issuer |
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| For | For | 2. Proposal to approve the amendment to the Company's first amended and restated agreement of limited partnership establishing that, if a quorum has not been obtained after two attempts at any meeting of limited partners of the company, then any votes present at the third convened meeting will be deemed to consititute a quorum. | Issuer |
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Company Name | Meeting Date | CUSIP | Ticker |
| Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. | 12/16/2008 | 29273R109 | ETP |
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Vote | For/Against Management | Proposal | Proposed by Issuer or Security Holder |
| For | For | 1. Approval of the terms of the Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. 2008 Long-Term Incentive Plan, which provides for awards of options to purchase the partnership's common units, awards of the partnership's restricted units, awards of the partnership's phantom units, and awards of the partnership's common units. | Issuer |
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Company Name | Meeting Date | CUSIP | Ticker |
| Buckeye Partners, L.P. | CONSENT SOLICITATION-EXPIRATION DATE 1/30/09 | 118230101 | BPL |
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Vote | For/Against Management | Proposal | Proposed by Issuer or Security Holder |
| For | For | 1. To approve the terms of the 2009 Long-Term Incentive Plan of Buckeye Partners, L.P. as described in the Consent Solicitation Statement. | Issuer |
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Company Name | Meeting Date | CUSIP | Ticker |
| Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. | 4/22/2009 | 559080106 | MMP |
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Vote | For/Against Management | Proposal | Proposed by Issuer or Security Holder |
| For | For | 1. Proposal to elect George A. O'Brien, Jr. as a Class I director to the general partner’s board of directors to serve until the 2012 annual meeting of limited partners. | Issuer |
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Company Name | Meeting Date | CUSIP | Ticker |
| Crosstex Energy L P | 5/7/2009 | 22765U102 | XTEX |
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Vote | For/Against Management | Proposal | Proposed by Issuer or Security Holder |
| For | For | 1. Proposal to approve the Crosstex Energy GP, LLC Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan (including the increase in the number of units available for issuance thereunder). | Issuer |
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| For | For | 2. Proposal to approve an amendment to the Crosstex Energy GP, LLC Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan to allow for an option exchange program for employees other than directors and executive officers. | Issuer |
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Company Name | Meeting Date | CUSIP | Ticker |
| Copano Energy, L.L.C. | 5/14/2009 | 217202100 | CPNO |
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Vote | For/Against Management | Proposal | Proposed by Issuer or Security Holder |
| For | For | 1. To elect James. G. Crump, Ernie L. Danner, John R. Eckel, Jr., Scott A. Griffiths, Michael L. Johnson, T. William Porter and William L. Thacker as directors to serve until the 2010 Annual Meeting of Unitholders. | Issuer |
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| For | For | 2. Approval of an amendment to the Amended and Restated Long-Term Incentive Plan. | Issuer |
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| For | For | 3. Ratification of Deloitte and Touche LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for 2009. | Issuer |
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Company Name | Meeting Date | CUSIP | Ticker |
| MarkWest Energy Partners, L.P. | 6/2/2009 | 570759100 | MWE |
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Vote | For/Against Management | Proposal | Proposed by Issuer or Security Holder |
| For | For | 1. To elect Frank M. Semple, John M. Fox, Keith E. Bailey, Michael L. Beatty, Charles K. Dempster, Donald C. Heppermann, William A. Kellstrom, Anne E. Fox Mounsey, William P. Nicoletti and Donald D. Wolf as directors of the general partner to serve until the 2010 Annual Meeting of Unitholders. | Issuer |
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| For | For | 2. Ratification of Deloitte and Touche LLP as the partnership's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2009. | Issuer |
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
| | TORTOISE ENERGY CAPITAL CORPORATION | |
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| Date: August 14, 2009 | By: | /s/ David J. Schulte | |
| | | David J. Schulte | |
| | | President and Chief Executive Officer | |
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