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Geographic Distribution of Decertification Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1981

printed as Table 15C · source pages 228–229 · nlrb1981_p0228_t0

Stitched from pp. 228–229.

Division and StateTotal 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
Division and StateTotal 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
Maine3220001189176909000086161
New Hampshire0000000000000000
Vermont1110000765741410001676
Massachusetts2676001191,3791,1624653917004697472
Rhode Island1000001993300060
Connecticut6220004349311168167100143180
New England371211001252,0021,7157676927104948889
New York36126213241,4521,23984561073531093941,021
New Jersey2864110223,0012,3501,273402685165211,0771,087
Pennsylvania40136322271,5241,27951020010099111769652
Middle Atlantic1043116645735,9774,8682,6281,2128583172412,2402,760
Ohio57119200461,4121,24851843269116730531
Indiana2176100148207364143714300322467
Illinois4964110431,6311,456477294559236979451
Michigan671614110513,4802,9341,2761,155595571,6581,267
Wisconsin2575200188407113162368000395330
East North Central21947387201728,1837,0853,0012,488306148594,0843,046
Iowa92110075195092622412100247325
Minnesota3076001231,5201,38163155061020750701
Missouri3787001291,08394234628337026596210
North Dakota0000000000000000
South Dakota3000003868234151900480
Nebraska1000001330000030
Kansas1133000868859619911861200397188
West North Central912017102713,8993,5131,4721,20719920462,0411,424
Delaware0000000000000000
Maryland1221100105845442471915600297245
District of Columbia211000126824811311300013518
Virginia622000498591143535112720476286
West Virginia400000420115632293001240
North Carolina125500072,5972,3971,170833337001,2271,028
South Carolina20000022826129300140
Georgia2596300163,0992,7661,174730444001,592950
Florida145410097997433292408900414321
South Atlantic772419500538,5617,7913,5122,4969447204,2792,848
Kentucky7330004337314142142000172104
Tennessee1584400773868636023212800326543
Alabama10110009324254858500016959
Mississippi2110001319301167167000134223
East South Central34139400211,7181,55575462612800801929
Arkansas92110077436502942128200356209
Louisiana11220009775685214151630047171
Oklahoma125410076585462632045900283363
Texas371412200231,7501,562847707124016715947
West South Central692319400463,9263,4431,6181,2743280161,8251,590
Montana8202006143105431726006257
Idaho1000001630000030
Wyoming0000000000000000
Colorado7110006571358242239030116481
New Mexico222000016813710410400033168
Arizona7101006853629295248470033454
Utah4101003555216313003613
Nevada5000005207176362412001400
Mountain3473400272,0031,4607366359830724773
Washington42115213311,6121,4308993234424508531933
Oregon14000001431426770574091970
California12726222111017,0395,9752,4612,0222311041043,5142,676
Alaska2000002413775200300
Hawaii4101003917833258004511
Guam0000000000000000
Pacific18938275241519,0977,7873,4702,4322891286214,3173,620
Puerto Rico20000024037100406270
Virgin Islands0000000000000000
Outlying Areas20000024037100406270
Total, all States and areas8562151593681264145,40639,25417,96813,0623,22568899321,28617,879

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  1. 1 The States are grouped according to the method used by the Bureau of the Census, U S Department of Commerce

687 of 687 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 228. The crop is cut off at the bottom: the South Atlantic block ends mid-division at South Carolina, and the South Atlantic subtotal plus all later divisions/states are not on this image. The stub heading carries a raised footnote marker ("Division and State 1"), but no footnote text is printed within the crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Blank spacer lines that separate each division block from its subtotal are typographic only and are not transcribed as rows. A faint stray scan mark sits in the stub area below "Division and State" (near the left edge of the heading band); it is an artifact, not printed content. All row and column cross-sums I checked reconcile exactly (division subtotals against their member states, and the "Total" union columns against AFL-CIO + Teamsters + other national + other local), so no misprints are suspected.

p. 229. Continuation page: no column headings are printed on this crop, so header_rows is empty. The grid has 17 columns (stub + 16 numeric), counted from the vertical column rules and confirmed by every body row carrying 16 values. The table is continued from the preceding page — the South Atlantic region block begins before this crop (only Georgia and Florida of that region appear here), so the "South Atlantic" and "Total, all States and areas" figures include values not shown on this image. The running head "Appendix" and page number "217" in the right margin were omitted, as were the leader dots trailing the row labels. All regional subtotal rows (East South Central, West South Central, Mountain, Pacific, Outlying Areas) were checked column by column against their member states and reconcile exactly as transcribed. Doubtful glyphs: in the "Washington" row the last column reads 933 (confirmed by the Pacific subtotal 3,620 = 933+0+2,676+0+11); in the "Total, all States and areas" row the 14th numeric column reads 993 and cannot be cross-checked from this page alone, so a 933/993 confusion there cannot be fully excluded. The "Mississippi" label and several i-dots print faintly in this scan but the wording is unambiguous. In the footnote "U S Department of Commerce" the periods after U and S are not visible in the scan and were transcribed as printed; the footnote also ends without a period. A stray ink mark sits above the South Atlantic row near the 8th numeric column, and a short stray stroke sits above the Mountain row in the same column; neither is a digit or a footnote marker.

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Source page 228 of NLRB FY1981 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1981, p. 228.
Source page 229 of NLRB FY1981 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1981, p. 229.

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.