NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1982 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1982
Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1982
| 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 | 5,268 | 407 | 7.7 | 205 | 3.9 | 124 | 2.4 | 531 | 10.1 | 329 | 6.2 |
| By type of case | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 4,153 | 375 | 9.0 | 151 | 3.6 | 114 | 2.7 | 489 | 11.8 | 265 | 6.4 |
| In RM cases | 233 | 7 | 3.0 | 10 | 4.3 | 1 | 0.4 | 8 | 3.4 | 11 | 4.7 |
| In RD cases | 882 | 25 | 2.8 | 44 | 5.0 | 9 | 1.0 | 34 | 3.9 | 53 | 6.0 |
| By type of election | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 169 | 9 | 5.3 | 7 | 4.1 | 1 | 0.6 | 10 | 5.9 | 8 | 4.7 |
| Stipulated elections | 4,058 | 239 | 5.9 | 148 | 3.6 | 111 | 2.7 | 350 | 8.6 | 259 | 6.4 |
| Expedited elections | 73 | 5 | 6.8 | 2 | 2.7 | 1 | 1.4 | 6 | 8.2 | 3 | 4.1 |
| Regional director-directed elections | 904 | 146 | 16.2 | 46 | 5.1 | 10 | 1.1 | 156 | 17.3 | 56 | 6.2 |
| Board-directed elections | 64 | 8 | 12.5 | 2 | 3.1 | 1 | 1.6 | 9 | 14.1 | 3 | 4.7 |
- 1 Number of elections in which objections were ruled on, regardless of number of allegations in each election
- 2 Number of elections in which challengers were ruled on, regardless of individual ballots challenged in each election
24 of 54 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 300. Twelve columns: stub, "Total elections", then Number/Percent pairs under each of the five groups. The stub column has no printed heading. Decimal points: the scan has lost nearly every period-sized dot on the page (row labels render as "representatıon electıons", "Objectıons", "ın RC cases" with dotless i's), so the percent cells appear as a digit, a gap, and a digit ("7 7", "10 1"). I have restored the decimal point in every percent cell on the same reasoning that the labels read "In"/"elections": e.g. the cell printed "7 7" is transcribed "7.7". Every restored value is internally consistent — each percent equals its Number divided by the row's Total elections to one decimal, Total objections = Objections only + Objections and challenges, and Total challenges = Challenges only + Objections and challenges, in all nine data rows. No integer cell was altered. Footnote 2 reads "challengers were ruled on" as printed; "challenges" is the evident intent, but it is transcribed as printed. "By type of case" and "By type of election" are section labels with no values. Both breakdowns sum to the 5,268 total elections.
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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.