NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1974 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled on in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1974
| Total elections | Objections only | Challenges only | Objections and challenges | Total objections | Total challenges | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total elections | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | |
| All representation elections | 9,112 | 698 | 7.7 | 379 | 4.2 | 195 | 2.1 | 893 | 9.8 | 574 | 6.3 |
| By type of case | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 8,231 | 635 | 7.7 | 347 | 4.2 | 172 | 2.1 | 807 | 9.8 | 519 | 6.3 |
| In RM cases | 383 | 38 | 9.9 | 18 | 4.7 | 14 | 3.7 | 52 | 13.6 | 32 | 8.4 |
| In RD cases | 498 | 25 | 5.0 | 14 | 2.8 | 9 | 1.8 | 34 | 6.8 | 23 | 4.6 |
| By type of election | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 1,301 | 47 | 3.7 | 24 | 1.9 | 11 | 0.8 | 58 | 4.5 | 35 | 2.7 |
| Stipulated elections | 6,133 | 455 | 7.4 | 259 | 4.2 | 145 | 2.4 | 600 | 9.8 | 404 | 6.6 |
| Expedited elections | 32 | 6 | 18.8 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 18.8 | 0 | |||
| Regional director-directed elections | 1,599 | 189 | 11.8 | 89 | 5.6 | 37 | 2.3 | 226 | 14.1 | 126 | 7.9 |
| Board-directed elections | 47 | 1 | 2.1 | 7 | 14.8 | 2 | 4.3 | 3 | 6.4 | 9 | 19.1 |
24 of 51 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 231. 12 columns: stub, "Total elections" (a tall heading spanning both header levels), then five Number/Percent pairs. The stub column has no printed heading. Decimal points: in this scan the decimal point in every Percent value is not resolved, so the cells read as e.g. "7 7", "13 6", "18 8". These are plainly one-decimal percentages (e.g. 698/9,112 = 7.7), so they are transcribed with a decimal point. No other digits were altered. Two doubtful Percent cells, where the glyph I read does not match the value implied by the Number and Total columns: - "Consent elections", Objections only / Percent: reads "3 7" (transcribed 3.7), but 47/1,301 = 3.6. Either a misprint or a 6 that scans like a 7. - "Board-directed elections", Challenges only / Percent: reads "14 8" (transcribed 14.8), but 7/47 = 14.9. Either a misprint or a 9 that scans like an 8. Every other percentage in the table rounds correctly from the printed Number and Total elections, and all column and component sums check out (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 the "All representation elections" line). Dash rules ("------") printed in place of a percentage for the "Expedited elections" row (Challenges only / Percent, Objections and challenges / Percent, Total challenges / Percent) are transcribed as empty cells; the corresponding Number cells are a printed 0. A stray typographic mark (a small dot) sits in the "Challenges only" heading block just under the word "Challenges"; it is a printing artifact, not a footnote marker, and is not transcribed.
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.