Ms. Tamara Brown reports

PRIMERO ANNOUNCES ELECTION OF DIRECTORS

At Primero Mining Corp.'s annual general and special meeting of shareholders held yesterday, all directors nominated in the management information circular dated March 24, 2015, were re-elected. The detailed results are as provided in the attached table.

Director                         Votes for   % for    Votes withheld  % withheld

Wade Nesmith                   100,580,267   88.25        13,396,186       11.75
Joseph Conway                  108,166,282   94.90         5,810,171        5.10
David Demers                    78,009,582   68.44        35,966,871       31.56
Grant Edey                      77,088,812   67.64        36,887,641       32.36
Rohan Hazelton                  79,948,868   70.15        34,027,585       29.85
Eduardo Luna                   111,471,544   97.80         2,504,909        2.20
Robert Quartermain             106,479,069   93.42         7,497,384        6.58
Michael Riley                   84,446,214   74.09        29,530,239       25.91
Brad Marchant                  113,835,530   99.88           140,923        0.12

In addition, Primero reports that shareholders voted in favour of the company's say on pay advisory, advance notice policy and for the adoption of the deferred unit plan for key officers of the company. Shareholders voted against the continuation of the directors phantom share unit plan.

Also, shareholders voted in favour of three of the four shareholder proposals concerning the implementation of a clawback policy, a minimum share ownership policy and an anti-hedging policy. The other shareholder proposal, as described in the information circular, was defeated by a majority of the votes represented at the meeting.

Full details of all policies and proposals are more fully described in the company's management information circular, as filed on SEDAR. The company has also filed a report of voting results on all resolutions voted on at the meeting on SEDAR.