NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1979 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1979
Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1979
| 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 | 8,249 | 720 | 8.5 | 148 | 1.8 | 107 | 1.3 | 827 | 9.8 | 255 | 3.0 |
| By type of case | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 7,214 | 651 | 9.0 | 138 | 1.9 | 95 | 1.3 | 746 | 10.3 | 233 | 3.2 |
| In RM cases | 247 | 21 | 8.5 | 2 | 0.8 | 2 | 0.8 | 23 | 9.3 | 4 | 1.7 |
| In RD cases | 788 | 48 | 6.1 | 8 | 1.0 | 10 | 1.3 | 58 | 7.4 | 18 | 2.3 |
| By type of election | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 490 | 22 | 4.5 | 7 | 1.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 23 | 4.7 | 8 | 1.6 |
| Stipulated elections | 6,236 | 499 | 8.0 | 137 | 2.2 | 85 | 1.4 | 584 | 9.4 | 222 | 3.6 |
| Expedited elections | 27 | 3 | 11.1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11.1 | 0 | |||
| Regional director-directed elections | 1,449 | 191 | 13.2 | 0 | 20 | 1.4 | 211 | 14.6 | 20 | 1.4 | |
| Board-directed elections | 47 | 5 | 10.6 | 4 | 8.5 | 1 | 2.1 | 6 | 12.8 | 5 | 10.6 |
- 1 Number of elections in which objections were ruled on, regardless of number of allegations in each election
- 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. Decimal points in the Percent columns print very faintly in this scan and often read as a blank space (e.g. "8 5"); they are transcribed as decimal points ("8.5"), which the arithmetic of every data row confirms. Arithmetic discrepancy in the "All representation elections" row: the detail rows sum exactly to the printed totals in every column (7,214+247+788 = 8,249 and 490+6,236+27+1,449+47 = 8,249; 651+21+48 = 720; 138+2+8 = 148; 95+2+10 = 107; 746+23+58 = 827; 233+4+18 = 255), but the five percentages on that row are all consistent with a base of 8,449 rather than the printed 8,249 (720/8,449 = 8.5; 148/8,449 = 1.8; 107/8,449 = 1.3; 827/8,449 = 9.8; 255/8,449 = 3.0, versus 8.7, 1.8, 1.3, 10.0 and 3.1 on a base of 8,249). The thousands-place digit of that cell is read as "2" ("8,249") and is transcribed as seen, but a printed "8,449" cannot be fully ruled out from the scan; either way one of the two figures is inconsistent in the source and nothing has been corrected here. Minor: "In RM cases" / Total challenges Percent is printed 1.7 while 4/247 rounds to 1.6. Cells that hold only a dash rule ("--------") are given as "": "Expedited elections" in Challenges only Percent, Objections and challenges Percent and Total challenges Percent, and "Regional director-directed elections" in Challenges only Percent. The stub column carries no printed heading at either heading level, so cell 0 of both header rows is empty. A small stray ink mark sits in the "Objections and challenges Percent" column just above the "In RC cases" row; it is not a value and is not transcribed.
Source image
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.