NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1974 › Disposition of Objections in Representation Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1974
| Objections filed | Objections withdrawn | Objections ruled upon | Overruled | Sustained | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Objections filed | Objections withdrawn | Objections ruled upon | Number | Percent of total ruled upon | Number | Percent of total ruled upon | |
| All representation elections | 1,111 | 218 | 893 | 711 | 79.6 | 182 | 20.4 |
| By type of case | |||||||
| RC cases | 1,011 | 204 | 807 | 644 | 79.8 | 163 | 20.2 |
| RM cases | 62 | 10 | 52 | 41 | 78.8 | 11 | 21.2 |
| RD cases | 38 | 4 | 34 | 26 | 76.5 | 8 | 23.5 |
| By type of election | |||||||
| Consent elections | 72 | 14 | 58 | 46 | 79.3 | 12 | 20.7 |
| Stipulated elections | 757 | 157 | 600 | 473 | 78.8 | 127 | 21.2 |
| Expedited elections | 7 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 66.7 | 2 | 33.3 |
| Regional director-directed elections | 271 | 45 | 226 | 185 | 81.9 | 41 | 18.1 |
| Board-directed elections | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 100.0 | 0 | |
44 of 44 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 232. Eight columns: stub plus three tall single headings (Objections filed / withdrawn / ruled upon) and two spanner headings (Overruled, Sustained^2), each over Number and Percent of total ruled upon. Decimal points in the percent columns are nearly invisible in this scan (they print as a gap, e.g. "79 6"); they are transcribed as decimal points, which the column arithmetic confirms (each row's two percents sum to 100.0). Doubtful cell: "Expedited elections", Overruled / Number. The glyph is faint and could be read as either 1 or 4; I transcribe 4 because the row's own figures require it (4 overruled + 2 sustained = 6 ruled upon, and 4/6 = 66.7 percent as printed) and because the Overruled column then sums to the printed total 711 (46 + 473 + 4 + 185 + 3). Read as 1 the column would total 708. All other columns cross-foot exactly to the "All representation elections" line in both the by-type-of-case and by-type-of-election panels. "Board-directed elections", Sustained / Percent of total ruled upon is a dash rule, recorded as an empty cell; the Sustained / Number cell on that line is a printed zero. The stub column carries no heading on either level. A small stray ink mark sits just left of the "Sustained" heading; it is a scan artifact, not a footnote marker. The caption's footnote reference (Fiscal Year 1974 superscript 1) is part of the omitted caption.
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.