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Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1977

printed as Table 11B · source page 305 · nlrb1977_p0305_t0

Total electionsObjections onlyChallenges onlyObjections and challengesTotal objectionsTotal challenges
Total electionsNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercent
All representation elections9,7959449.63343.41881.91,13211.65225.3
By type of case,
In RC cases8,60886210.02913.41692.01,03112.04605.4
In RM cases331319.4175.141.23510.6216.3
In RD cases856516.0263.0151.8667.8414.8
By type of election,
Consent elections858475.540.50475.540.5
Stipulated elections7,1286389.02333.31171.675510.63504.9
Expedited elections24520.800520.80
Regional director-directed elections1,72125014.5834.8613.531118.01448.3
Board-directed elections6446.31421.91015.61421.92437.5

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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 individual ballots challenged in each election

24 of 50 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 305. Twelve columns: stub, "Total elections" (a tall heading spanning both header levels), then Number/Percent pairs under each of the five spanner headings. Decimal points: the scan has lost or nearly lost the decimal point in many percent cells (they print as e.g. "1 9", "10 0", "5 5", "20 8", "18 0", "15 6", "5 3"). These are decimal points in the original typesetting, not spaces, and I have restored them. The affected cells are: All representation elections / Objections and challenges Percent and Total challenges Percent; In RC cases / Objections only Percent, Objections and challenges Percent, Total objections Percent; In RM cases / Objections only Percent, Objections and challenges Percent; In RD cases / Objections only Percent, Objections and challenges Percent; Consent elections / Objections only Percent, Challenges only Percent, Total objections Percent; Stipulated elections / Challenges only Percent, Total objections Percent, Total challenges Percent; Expedited elections / Total objections Percent; Regional director-directed elections / Challenges only Percent, Total objections Percent; Board-directed elections / Challenges only Percent, Objections and challenges Percent. Dash rules transcribed as empty cells (percent not computable where the count is 0): Consent elections / Objections and challenges Percent; Expedited elections / Challenges only Percent, Objections and challenges Percent, Total challenges Percent. Arithmetic checks: all count columns add correctly (both panels of rows sum to the "All representation elections" line, and the Total objections / Total challenges counts equal the component sums). Three percents appear to be off by 0.1 from the printed counts and are transcribed as printed: In RC cases / Total challenges Percent prints 5.4 (460/8,608 = 5.3); In RD cases / Total objections Percent prints 7.8 (66/856 = 7.7); Regional director-directed elections / Total objections Percent prints 18.0 (311/1,721 = 18.1). The last of these is also the cell where the degraded decimal point leaves slight doubt between 18.0 and 18.1; I read the final digit as 0. Punctuation of the two section labels is faint. "By type of case," and "By type of election," read as commas in this scan, but a degraded colon cannot be ruled out. The stub column carries no printed heading; it is blank in both header levels.

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Source page 305 of NLRB FY1977 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1977, p. 305.

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.