NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1985 › Geographic Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1985
Stitched from pp. 194–196.
| Division and State | Total elections | Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions | Number of elections in which no representative was chosen | Number of employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Valid votes cast for unions | Total votes for no union | Eligible employees in units choosing representation | ||||||||
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| Division and State | Total elections | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Number of elections in which no representative was chosen | Number of employees eligible to vote | Total valid votes cast | Total | AFL-CIO unions | Teamsters | Other national unions | Other local unions | Total votes for no union | Eligible employees in units choosing representation |
| Maine | 16 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1,418 | 1,269 | 553 | 383 | 20 | 26 | 124 | 716 | 265 |
| New Hampshire | 10 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 625 | 591 | 271 | 259 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 320 | 164 |
| Vermont | 11 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 269 | 255 | 108 | 86 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 31 |
| Massachusetts | 204 | 127 | 107 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 77 | 8,453 | 7,277 | 3,618 | 2,929 | 579 | 20 | 90 | 3,659 | 3,159 |
| Rhode Island | 14 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 304 | 279 | 156 | 73 | 61 | 0 | 22 | 123 | 179 |
| Connecticut | 55 | 22 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 33 | 4,800 | 4,284 | 2,011 | 1,390 | 578 | 13 | 30 | 2,273 | 1,786 |
| New England | 310 | 173 | 136 | 30 | 1 | 6 | 137 | 15,869 | 13,955 | 6,717 | 5,120 | 1,272 | 59 | 266 | 7,238 | 5,584 |
| New York | 364 | 190 | 109 | 37 | 3 | 41 | 174 | 18,690 | 15,151 | 8,733 | 5,107 | 837 | 759 | 2,030 | 6,418 | 11,011 |
| New Jersey | 205 | 88 | 46 | 28 | 1 | 13 | 117 | 10,807 | 9,269 | 4,261 | 2,811 | 1,033 | 65 | 352 | 5,008 | 3,401 |
| Pennsylvania | 276 | 115 | 64 | 40 | 2 | 9 | 161 | 11,156 | 9,789 | 4,685 | 3,038 | 1,158 | 54 | 435 | 5,104 | 4,366 |
| Middle Atlantic | 845 | 393 | 219 | 105 | 6 | 63 | 452 | 40,653 | 34,209 | 17,679 | 10,956 | 3,028 | 878 | 2,817 | 16,530 | 18,778 |
| Ohio | 297 | 120 | 76 | 37 | 5 | 2 | 177 | 16,923 | 15,448 | 6,669 | 5,297 | 1,014 | 256 | 102 | 8,779 | 5,141 |
| Indiana | 134 | 55 | 28 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 79 | 5,839 | 5,539 | 2,451 | 1,721 | 573 | 33 | 124 | 3,088 | 1,990 |
| Illinois | 222 | 79 | 41 | 21 | 5 | 12 | 143 | 9,498 | 8,370 | 3,486 | 2,033 | 510 | 144 | 799 | 4,884 | 2,515 |
| Michigan | 300 | 126 | 87 | 34 | 1 | 4 | 174 | 17,101 | 14,860 | 7,031 | 5,679 | 1,058 | 153 | 141 | 7,829 | 6,471 |
| Wisconsin | 123 | 36 | 24 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 87 | 6,598 | 6,014 | 2,512 | 1,696 | 481 | 26 | 309 | 3,502 | 1,344 |
| East North Central | 1,076 | 416 | 256 | 124 | 13 | 23 | 660 | 55,959 | 50,231 | 22,149 | 16,426 | 3,636 | 612 | 1,475 | 28,082 | 17,461 |
| Iowa | 57 | 27 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 30 | 2,444 | 2,238 | 1,138 | 714 | 351 | 0 | 73 | 1,100 | 1,134 |
| Minnesota | 123 | 50 | 25 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 73 | 4,138 | 3,706 | 1,697 | 883 | 486 | 41 | 287 | 2,009 | 1,524 |
| Missouri | 144 | 60 | 32 | 22 | 2 | 4 | 84 | 6,652 | 5,946 | 2,629 | 1,502 | 1,015 | 48 | 64 | 3,317 | 1,650 |
| North Dakota | 9 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 310 | 281 | 166 | 132 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 228 |
| South Dakota | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 169 | 158 | 64 | 46 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 94 | 29 |
| Nebraska | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1,509 | 1,217 | 371 | 363 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 846 | 83 |
| Kansas | 49 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 2,157 | 1,991 | 594 | 463 | 131 | 0 | 0 | 1,397 | 269 |
| West North Central | 397 | 163 | 91 | 54 | 6 | 12 | 234 | 17,379 | 15,537 | 6,659 | 4,103 | 2,043 | 89 | 424 | 8,878 | 4,917 |
| Delaware | 9 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 905 | 825 | 301 | 205 | 96 | 0 | 0 | 524 | 37 |
| Maryland | 97 | 42 | 24 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 55 | 5,930 | 5,124 | 2,476 | 1,718 | 418 | 205 | 135 | 2,648 | 3,086 |
| District of Columbia | 22 | 14 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 708 | 583 | 328 | 238 | 12 | 15 | 63 | 255 | 350 |
| Virginia | 57 | 20 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 37 | 5,522 | 5,050 | 1,893 | 1,420 | 326 | 0 | 147 | 3,157 | 1,026 |
| West Virginia | 24 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 1,431 | 1,263 | 609 | 247 | 214 | 31 | 117 | 654 | 370 |
| North Carolina | 34 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2,821 | 2,575 | 1,125 | 725 | 281 | 119 | 0 | 1,450 | 935 |
| South Carolina | 25 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3,169 | 2,888 | 1,160 | 1,091 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 1,728 | 774 |
| Georgia | 82 | 32 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 50 | 7,739 | 7,197 | 3,187 | 2,511 | 594 | 75 | 7 | 4,010 | 2,411 |
| Florida | 86 | 33 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 53 | 6,130 | 5,845 | 2,539 | 1,837 | 447 | 12 | 243 | 3,306 | 2,041 |
| South Atlantic | 436 | 183 | 115 | 46 | 3 | 19 | 253 | 34,355 | 31,350 | 13,618 | 9,992 | 2,457 | 457 | 712 | 17,732 | 11,030 |
| Kentucky | 81 | 32 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 49 | 4,595 | 4,216 | 1,496 | 809 | 441 | 241 | 5 | 2,720 | 1,026 |
| Tennessee | 85 | 32 | 21 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 53 | 9,396 | 8,450 | 3,552 | 2,896 | 472 | 5 | 179 | 4,898 | 2,529 |
| Alabama | 67 | 35 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 32 | 5,512 | 5,049 | 2,549 | 2,368 | 101 | 41 | 39 | 2,500 | 2,563 |
| Mississippi | 30 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 3,761 | 3,474 | 1,759 | 1,610 | 100 | 0 | 49 | 1,715 | 1,649 |
| East South Central | 263 | 112 | 76 | 30 | 2 | 4 | 151 | 23,264 | 21,189 | 9,356 | 7,683 | 1,114 | 287 | 272 | 11,833 | 7,767 |
| Arkansas | 37 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 26 | 4,224 | 3,876 | 1,567 | 1,483 | 41 | 0 | 43 | 2,309 | 811 |
| Louisiana | 44 | 23 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 21 | 2,792 | 2,522 | 964 | 670 | 267 | 0 | 27 | 1,558 | 831 |
| Oklahoma | 36 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 2,572 | 2,154 | 890 | 850 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 1,264 | 772 |
| Texas | 111 | 46 | 30 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 65 | 7,528 | 6,653 | 3,027 | 1,727 | 1,078 | 22 | 200 | 3,626 | 2,430 |
| West South Central | 228 | 88 | 59 | 22 | 1 | 6 | 140 | 17,116 | 15,205 | 6,448 | 4,730 | 1,426 | 22 | 270 | 8,757 | 4,844 |
| Montana | 35 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 1,208 | 1,105 | 432 | 115 | 93 | 200 | 24 | 673 | 486 |
| Idaho | 23 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 595 | 504 | 184 | 123 | 36 | 20 | 5 | 320 | 87 |
| Wyoming | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 129 | 119 | 48 | 30 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 71 | 30 |
| Colorado | 46 | 22 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 2,643 | 2,218 | 968 | 863 | 60 | 40 | 5 | 1,250 | 891 |
| New Mexico | 13 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 678 | 645 | 276 | 78 | 33 | 16 | 149 | 369 | 40 |
| Arizona | 32 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 2,256 | 1,982 | 951 | 745 | 190 | 10 | 6 | 1,031 | 845 |
| Utah | 18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 434 | 401 | 151 | 88 | 63 | 0 | 0 | 250 | 100 |
| Nevada | 25 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 2,317 | 2,012 | 428 | 327 | 50 | 51 | 0 | 1,584 | 107 |
| Mountain | 199 | 74 | 53 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 125 | 10,260 | 8,986 | 3,438 | 2,369 | 525 | 355 | 189 | 5,548 | 2,586 |
| Washington | 164 | 51 | 32 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 113 | 5,161 | 4,226 | 2,116 | 1,455 | 321 | 77 | 263 | 2,110 | 2,640 |
| Oregon | 79 | 32 | 17 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 47 | 2,504 | 2,070 | 785 | 419 | 258 | 41 | 67 | 1,285 | 879 |
| California | 515 | 210 | 111 | 70 | 9 | 20 | 305 | 23,790 | 20,337 | 9,994 | 5,956 | 2,944 | 290 | 804 | 10,343 | 10,508 |
| Alaska | 30 | 17 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 784 | 696 | 378 | 102 | 182 | 17 | 77 | 318 | 446 |
| Hawaii | 13 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1,050 | 735 | 617 | 285 | 76 | 48 | 208 | 118 | 935 |
| Guam | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1,701 | 1,543 | 428 | 390 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 1,115 | 112 |
| Pacific | 804 | 322 | 173 | 101 | 16 | 32 | 482 | 34,990 | 29,607 | 14,318 | 8,607 | 3,781 | 473 | 1,457 | 15,289 | 15,520 |
| Puerto Rico | 55 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 23 | 4,367 | 3,839 | 2,332 | 663 | 88 | 333 | 1,248 | 1,507 | 2,674 |
| Virgin Islands | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Outlying Areas | 56 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 24 | 4,375 | 3,847 | 2,333 | 664 | 88 | 333 | 1,248 | 1,514 | 2,674 |
| Total, all States and areas | 4,614 | 1,956 | 1,188 | 528 | 54 | 186 | 2,658 | 254,220 | 224,116 | 102,715 | 70,650 | 19,370 | 3,565 | 9,130 | 121,401 | 91,161 |
948 of 948 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 194. 17 columns: stub, "Total elections", five columns under "Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions", three tall single columns, five columns under "Valid votes cast for unions", then "Total votes for no union" and "Eligible employees in units choosing representation". The crop ends just below the "West North Central" line; the table continues on the following page(s), so no footnote text is printed on this image even though the stub heading carries a raised "1" marker ("Division and State^1"). The footnote itself appears elsewhere. Doubtful cell: Ohio, "Other national unions" (col 6) is printed as "5" followed by a small comma-like speck; read as 5, which is confirmed by the East North Central subtotal of 13 (5+2+5+1+0). The division lines (New England, Middle Atlantic, East North Central, West North Central) are indented subtotal rows set off by rules; they are transcribed as ordinary rows with values. Arithmetic cross-checks: for every state row the four union sub-columns sum to the "Valid votes cast for unions — Total", and that total plus "Total votes for no union" equals "Total valid votes cast"; every division line equals the sum of its member states in all 16 numeric columns. No misprints detected.
p. 195. The crop is a continuation page ("—Continued"): it begins mid-table with Delaware (the South Atlantic division) and is cut off at the bottom — the Utah row is the last one shown and its type is clipped by the lower edge of the image, though all of its figures are legible. The Mountain division continues (Nevada, division subtotal, etc.) past the crop, so there is no final total row and no footnote text here. The stub heading carries a raised 1 ("Division and State^1"), but the corresponding footnote is not printed on this page. The division lines (South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central) are subtotal rows set off by rules; they are transcribed as ordinary rows with their values. Arithmetic cross-checks all pass: in every row the four union breakdown columns sum to the adjacent "Total", won + no-representative elections equal "Total elections", and union votes + no-union votes equal "Total valid votes cast"; the three division subtotals also equal the sums of their member states. No digits were doubtful; the only typographic hazard was the frequent broken/faint "1" glyphs in the single-digit columns, which were resolved by these cross-checks.
p. 196. The crop is the final page of a continued table: the Mountain division's earlier States appear on the preceding page, so "Nevada" is the first printed body row here and the "Mountain" subtotal that follows covers States not all shown. Indented rows (Mountain, Pacific, Outlying Areas, Total, all States and areas) are division/area subtotals printed between horizontal rules; they carry values and are transcribed as ordinary rows. Arithmetic checks (performed only to validate the reading, nothing was altered): every one of the 16 numeric columns of the Pacific subtotal equals the sum of Washington through Guam, and every column of the Outlying Areas subtotal equals Puerto Rico plus Virgin Islands, so column alignment in those blocks is confirmed. Doubtful cells: in the Hawaii row, "Total votes for no union" has a small stray ink mark just left of the figure; I read the value as 118 with no leading digit. The Guam row's large eligible/valid-vote figures (1,701 and 1,543) against only 3 elections look anomalous but are clearly printed and are consistent with the Pacific subtotal, so they are transcribed as printed. In the footnote, the periods in "U.S." and the terminal period are faint/broken in the scan; they are rendered here in their conventional form.
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.