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Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1980

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Total electionsObjections onlyChallenges onlyObjections and challengesTotal objectionsTotal challenges
Total electionsNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercent
All representation elections8,5318269.72392.82302.71,05612.44695.5
By type of case.
In RC cases7,33274010.12042.82122.995213.04165.7
In RM cases280145.0186.441.4186.4227.9
In RD cases919727.8171.8141.5869.4313.4
By type of election.
Consent elections412184.410.261.5245.871.7
Stipulated elections6,4455839.01562.41602.574311.53164.9
Expedited elections33515.200515.20
Regional director-directed elections1,58321313.5825.2603.827317.21429.0
Board-directed elections58712.1046.91119.046.9

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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. 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.

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Source page 278 of NLRB FY1980 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1980, p. 278.

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.