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Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1972

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Total electionsObjections onlyChallenges onlyObjections and challengesTotal objectionsTotal challenges
Total electionsNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercent
All representation elections9,2267137.73393.71641.88779.55035.5
By type of case
In RC cases8,3546517.83113.71511.88029.64625.5
In RM cases4154210.1174.181.95012.0256.0
In RD cases457204.4112.451.1255.5163.5
By type of election
Consent elections1,829764.2402.212.7884.8522.8
Stipulated elections5,5384337.81843.31031.95369.72875.2
Expedited elections29517.200517.20
Regional director-directed elections1,73118510.71096.3472.723213.41569.0
Board-directed elections991414.166.122.01616.288.1

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  1. 1 Number of elections in which objections were ruled on, regardless of number of allegations in each election.
  2. 2 Number of elections in which challenges were ruled on, regardless of number of individual ballots challenged in each election.

24 of 51 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 257. Twelve columns: stub, "Total elections", then Number/Percent pairs under five spanner headings. Decimal points in the percent columns print faintly or drop out in this scan, so many cells appear as a digit, a gap, then a digit (e.g. "1 8" in the Objections-and-challenges Percent column of "All representation elections", "9 5" in Total objections Percent, "4 4" and "5 5" and "3 5" in the "In RD cases" row, "17 2" for "Expedited elections", "10 7"/"6 3"/"13 4" for "Regional director-directed elections", "6 1"/"2 0"/"8 1" for "Board-directed elections"). These are decimal points, not spaces, and are transcribed as such; every one of them checks out against Number divided by Total elections, and all Number columns sum consistently (objections only + objections and challenges = total objections; challenges only + objections and challenges = total challenges; the three case-type rows and the five election-type rows each sum to 9,226). The "Consent elections" cell under Objections-and-challenges Percent is printed without a leading zero as ".7" and is transcribed that way. The Percent cells for "Expedited elections" under Challenges only, Objections and challenges, and Total challenges hold dash rules ("------"), transcribed as empty; the Number cells beside them are printed zeros. A small stray ink mark sits just left of "16" in the Total challenges Number column of the "In RD cases" row; it is not a footnote marker or a digit, and has been omitted. No footnote markers appear on any body value; markers 1 and 2 attach only to the "Total objections" and "Total challenges" headings.

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Source page 257 of NLRB FY1972 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1972, p. 257.

Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Read by claude-opus-5 (effort max, prompt extract_v1) from the 300-dpi scan; stitched by page. Updated October 2026.