Tesla shareholders decisively backed proposals to affirm Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar pay package, according to details of the vote released Friday.

Passage of the proposals was announced at Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting Thursday, without the underlying totals. In the end, about 72% of voting shares backed the pay package, excluding stock owned by Musk and his brother, Kimbal.

For months, many Tesla investors have worried about how engaged Elon Musk would be in running the electric vehicle company after a judge in Delaware voided his pay package.

The compensation plan requires Musk to hold on to the shares for at least five years before selling them, and the value of the package will continue to fluctuate before he can do so. At Thursday’s closing price, the shares are worth about $48 billion.

Addressing shareholders after the vote, Musk vowed that he was committed to Tesla.

The pay package, he said, “is not actually cash, and I can’t cut and run, nor would I want to.”

It served as a “vote of confidence in Elon,” analysts at Bernstein wrote in a note after the result. “While there remains some uncertainty around the legal process and next steps, by that standard the vote was a clear pass, mitigating concerns that Elon might leave the company or direct more of his energy elsewhere.”

Tesla’s board hoped that a second confirmation of the pay award, originally approved in 2018, could convince the Delaware court to reverse its ruling. The judge in the case said the award was excessive and dictated by Musk to a board with personal ties to him.

“We believe that the ratification vote that Elon demanded and coerced is deeply flawed as a matter of law, legally ineffective and does not impact our case,” said Greg Varallo, a lawyer for the disenchanted Tesla shareholders who challenged Musk’s pay in court.

With the pay package, Musk would own 20.5% of Tesla, up from about 13%.