NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1980 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1980
| 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 | 8,531 | 826 | 9.7 | 239 | 2.8 | 230 | 2.7 | 1,056 | 12.4 | 469 | 5.5 |
| By type of case. | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 7,332 | 740 | 10.1 | 204 | 2.8 | 212 | 2.9 | 952 | 13.0 | 416 | 5.7 |
| In RM cases | 280 | 14 | 5.0 | 18 | 6.4 | 4 | 1.4 | 18 | 6.4 | 22 | 7.9 |
| In RD cases | 919 | 72 | 7.8 | 17 | 1.8 | 14 | 1.5 | 86 | 9.4 | 31 | 3.4 |
| By type of election. | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 412 | 18 | 4.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 6 | 1.5 | 24 | 5.8 | 7 | 1.7 |
| Stipulated elections | 6,445 | 583 | 9.0 | 156 | 2.4 | 160 | 2.5 | 743 | 11.5 | 316 | 4.9 |
| Expedited elections | 33 | 5 | 15.2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15.2 | 0 | |||
| Regional director-directed elections | 1,583 | 213 | 13.5 | 82 | 5.2 | 60 | 3.8 | 273 | 17.2 | 142 | 9.0 |
| Board-directed elections | 58 | 7 | 12.1 | 0 | 4 | 6.9 | 11 | 19.0 | 4 | 6.9 | |
24 of 50 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 278. Decimal points: in this 1-bit scan the decimal point inside most percent values has dropped out, so the page shows e.g. "9 7", "15 2", "13 0" with a gap where the point belongs (the point does survive in the Consent elections / Challenges only cell, printed "0.2"). I transcribed these as decimals ("9.7", "15.2", "13.0"); every one is confirmed by arithmetic, since each percent equals its own Number divided by that row's Total elections. Digits themselves are clear; only the punctuation was reconstructed. Cross-checks all reconcile: 7,332+280+919 = 8,531 and 412+6,445+33+1,583+58 = 8,531, and each of the five number columns sums to the "All representation elections" line under both breakdowns (826, 239, 230, 1,056, 469). No misprints found. Blank percent cells: Expedited elections has no percent printed under "Challenges only", "Objections and challenges" or "Total challenges", and Board-directed elections has none under "Challenges only"; in each case the corresponding Number is 0, and the percent cell is genuinely empty, so it is "". Section-label punctuation: "By type of case." and "By type of election." each end in a single baseline dot in the scan. These section lines are often set with a colon in this report series, and the upper dot of a colon could have been lost in the scan, but only one dot is visible, so I transcribed a period. Trailing dots on the data-row labels are leader dots and were dropped. Stub heading: the stub column has no heading printed in either header level, so cell 0 of both header rows is "". Footnote 1 ends without a terminal period as printed (footnote 2 has one); transcribed as shown.
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.