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Standard Federal Administrative Regional Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1979

printed as Table 15B · source pages 319–320 · nlrb1979_p0319_t0

Stitched from pp. 319–320.

Standard Federal regionsTotal electionsNumber of elections in which representation rights were won by unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castValid votes cast for unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Standard Federal regionsTotal electionsTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsTeamstersOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Connecticut10344219410597,0396,4092,7451,5492425044503,6641,579
Maine532313802304,1763,8701,5581,2492450642,312627
Massachusetts2419150284915019,43817,2528,1414,2262,4336458379,1116,344
New Hampshire21117400101,1331,0324864127400546471
Rhode Island382415414142,5142,2261,1891,0357325561,0371,261
Vermont1332100101,4851,3645675135400797175
Region I4691961085492527335,78532,15314,6868,9843,1211,1741,40717,46710,457
Delaware76311111941771046317121273144
New Jersey296130623382716615,08213,0716,5563,4501,0989061,1026,5155,887
New York57432416575236125031,60425,22213,6778,8511,7099152,20211,54516,955
Puerto Rico86492041243710,0319,0375,1091,34411483,6433,9285,019
Virgin Islands221411201890065850145037014157700
Region II9855232611153311446257,81148,16525,94714,1582,9751,8416,97322,21828,705
District of Columbia301713301134,9423,9743,3432,2684901,0266313,979
Maryland158663326259218,27715,8977,8916,069809479668,0067,386
Pennsylvania5362161127971832030,68227,65611,4056,6872,3221,2661,13016,2517,151
Virginia101564211124529,25325,90321,31213,063369937,7874,59124,310
West Virginia512816552233,1862,8941,406997236671061,4881,265
Region III876383216124152849386,34076,32445,35729,0843,7851,47311,01530,96744,091
Alabama93523811304110,1909,2164,2303,88717716604,9863,918
Florida161684319429310,4349,0764,3522,6991,2822661054,7243,611
Georgia1896343163112625,42522,9859,4496,2582,4976811313,5363,676
Kentucky11745221643729,4938,6133,7731,9864529284074,8402,856
Mississippi572514632327,2696,6832,8142,3411532011193,8692,005
North Carolina110422514216813,61912,2895,4434,1161,147731076,8462,820
South Carolina431713310264,6114,2541,7521,6081053902,502792
Tennessee1767243271110420,73418,8939,0165,7202,3076403499,8777,198
Region IV9463842411122110562101,77592,00940,82928,6158,1202,9941,10051,18026,876
Illinois4191859158171923429,33225,52712,9906,3492,3732,0212,24712,53713,274
Indiana23810163298113721,79319,2728,4685,8986951,8354010,8045,372
Michigan4472079151501524025,46621,81010,2063,9791,2114,10890811,6047,959
Minnesota183834533501009,9128,2743,7422,493790447124,5323,451
Ohio57925214574231032739,81436,04616,2119,4982,3653,60174719,83510,676
Wisconsin167775021339011,6749,9994,1312,9504353354115,8682,917
Region V2,033905485266106481,128137,991120,92855,74831,1677,86912,3474,36565,18043,649
Arkansas492212820274,1643,7891,31679124627902,473692
Louisiana883625632526,5866,0092,4291,7752611892043,5801,695
New Mexico341816200161,8091,5798787799900701972
Oklahoma7831209114710,5409,5594,6332,7991631,596754,9263,635
Texas2129761312311519,40116,8977,8275,7651,488476989,0707,174
Region VI461204134568625742,50037,83317,08311,9092,2572,54037720,75014,168
Iowa602311903371,9911,8458056048781331,040595
Kansas823422642485,0214,2442,2841,512167560451,9602,304
Missouri2049447368311011,26510,1724,9412,9481,2194952795,2314,682
Nebraska402215700181,5941,3968446541730175521,133
Region VII386173955812821319,87117,6578,8745,7181,6461,1363748,7838,714
Colorado1065943646478,5597,4732,9692,3621432572074,5042,210
Montana462115600257797023312686300371328
North Dakota1353200833930110917920019250
South Dakota104310066135893452945100244420
Utah342213900121,3751,172617422187805551,069
Wyoming1054010544639819416517120204371
Region VIII21911681245610312,11110,6354,5653,5285532772076,0704,448
Arizona9235231110575,4034,7212,1231,317643113502,5981,205
California1,024457248157232956759,02649,31624,19113,4115,7203,7371,32325,12523,406
Hawaii512312551281,9761,61184917813651322762910
Guam0000000000000000
Nevada412413812171,1901,0245591742359555465658
Region IX1,208539296181303266967,59556,67227,72215,0806,7344,4581,45028,95026,179
Alaska2513822112895655273101602686382357
Idaho34158700191,08394239016122900552445
Oregon12643231613835,7244,8031,9621,37544789512,8411,441
Washington2751298141341468,4617,2642,9881,950830491594,2762,497
Region X460200120666826016,16313,6645,6133,5871,5661642968,0514,740
Total, all Federal regions8,0433,6232,0371,0562452854,420577,942506,040246,424151,83038,62628,40427,564259,616212,027

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  1. 1 The States are grouped according to the 10 standard Federal administrative regions

972 of 972 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 319. The table has 17 columns: the stub, "Total elections", five columns under "Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions" (Total, AFL-CIO unions, Teamsters, Other national unions, Other local unions), three tall single columns, five columns under "Valid votes cast for unions" (same five sub-headings), and two more tall single columns. The crop ends after the "Region IV" subtotal line (a double rule closes the image), so the remaining Standard Federal regions (V and higher) and any grand total continue on the following page and are not shown here. The stub heading carries a raised "1" ("Standard Federal regions^1"), but the text of footnote 1 is not printed within this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Arithmetic check (not transcribed into any cell, for reader confidence only): every one of the 16 numeric columns in all four subtotal rows — Region I, II, III and IV — sums exactly to its member state rows, so no misprint is suspected anywhere on this page. Two values that look anomalous but are printed as transcribed: Virginia shows 29,253 employees eligible to vote and 24,310 eligible employees in units choosing representation against only 101 elections, and Puerto Rico shows 3,643 "Other local unions" votes; both are consistent with their region subtotals.

p. 320. The crop is a continuation page: no column headings are printed on it, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 17 columns (stub + 16 data columns), counted from the vertical rules; the first body row shown is Illinois, the first State of Region V, so Regions I-IV appear on the preceding page. The footnote marker 1 printed at the foot of the page refers to a heading (the stub heading on the earlier page), not to anything printed on this crop. The only genuinely doubtful cell was column 6 (the sixth data column, the second of the two narrow columns) in the Hawaii/Guam rows of Region IX: at this scan resolution a single "1" sits ambiguously between the two baselines. I resolved it as Hawaii = 1, Guam = 0 because the table's own identities require it: in every other row of the table column 2 equals the sum of columns 3+4+5+6 (Hawaii: 12+5+5+1 = 23) and the Region IX subtotal for column 6 is 32 (0+29+1+0+2). Every other figure in Guam's row is a printed 0, consistent with an all-zero row. No arithmetic discrepancies were found: all six region subtotals (V-X) reconcile with their member States in all 16 columns, and the internal identities col 1 = col 2 + col 7, col 2 = cols 3+4+5+6, col 10 = cols 11+12+13+14, and col 9 = col 10 + col 15 hold for every data row and for the "Total, all Federal regions" line. State names are set in a worn typeface (e.g. Hawaii, Michigan, Wisconsin, Missouri, Washington show broken dots over the i's); they are transcribed in standard spelling. Leader dots after each row label were dropped as instructed.

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Source page 319 of NLRB FY1979 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1979, p. 319.
Source page 320 of NLRB FY1979 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1979, p. 320.

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.