NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1977 › Analysis of elections conducted in representation cases closed
| Type of election | All R elections Total elections | All R elections Withdrawn or dismissed before certification | All R elections Resulting in a rerun before certification | All R elections Resulting in certification | All R elections Rerun or runoff | RC elections Total elections | RC elections Withdrawn or dismissed before certification | RC elections Resulting in a rerun before certification | RC elections Resulting in certification | RM elections Total elections | RM elections Withdrawn or dismissed before certification | RM elections Resulting in a rerun before certification | RM elections Resulting in certification | RD elections Total elections | RD elections Withdrawn or dismissed before certification | RD elections Resulting in a rerun before certification | RD elections Resulting in certification |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All types | 9,795 | 91 | 220 | 9,484 | 8,608 | 86 | 212 | 8,308 | 331 | 3 | 1 | 327 | 856 | 0 | 7 | 849 | |
| Rerun required | 170 | 162 | 1 | 7 | |||||||||||||
| Runoff required | 50 | 50 | |||||||||||||||
| Consent elections | 858 | 2 | 20 | 838 | 719 | 2 | 20 | 697 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 113 | ||
| Consent: Rerun/Runoff required | 16 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
| Stipulated elections | 7,128 | 57 | 146 | 6,925 | 6,288 | 56 | 141 | 6,091 | 227 | 1 | 1 | 223 | 613 | 0 | 4 | 609 | |
| Regional director-directed | 1,721 | 32 | 49 | 1,640 | 1,538 | 30 | 46 | 1,462 | 54 | 2 | 0 | 52 | 129 | 0 | 3 | 126 | |
| Board-directed | 64 | 0 | 5 | 59 | 39 | 0 | 5 | 34 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | |
| Expedited - sec. 8(b)(7)(C) | 24 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Source data: U.S. NLRB Annual Reports (public domain). Reconstruction by NLRB Stats Archive. Updated June 2026.