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Geographic Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1985

printed as Table 15A · source pages 194–196 · nlrb1985_p0194_t0

Stitched from pp. 194–196.

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
Maine1663111101,4181,2695533832026124716265
New Hampshire106510046255912712591200320164
Vermont1131200826925510886220014731
Massachusetts2041271071703778,4537,2773,6182,92957920903,6593,159
Rhode Island149620153042791567361022123179
Connecticut552214701334,8004,2842,0111,39057813302,2731,786
New England310173136301613715,86913,9556,7175,1201,272592667,2385,584
New York3641901093734117418,69015,1518,7335,1078377592,0306,41811,011
New Jersey20588462811311710,8079,2694,2612,8111,033653525,0083,401
Pennsylvania27611564402916111,1569,7894,6853,0381,158544355,1044,366
Middle Atlantic84539321910566345240,65334,20917,67910,9563,0288782,81716,53018,778
Ohio29712076375217716,92315,4486,6695,2971,0142561028,7795,141
Indiana13455282322795,8395,5392,4511,721573331243,0881,990
Illinois2227941215121439,4988,3703,4862,0335101447994,8842,515
Michigan30012687341417417,10114,8607,0315,6791,0581531417,8296,471
Wisconsin1233624903876,5986,0142,5121,696481263093,5021,344
East North Central1,076416256124132366055,95950,23122,14916,4263,6366121,47528,08217,461
Iowa572716803302,4442,2381,1387143510731,1001,134
Minnesota12350251645734,1383,7061,697883486412872,0091,524
Missouri14460322224846,6525,9462,6291,5021,01548643,3171,650
North Dakota97430023102811661323400115228
South Dakota5330002169158644618009429
Nebraska104220061,5091,21737136380084683
Kansas49129300372,1571,991594463131001,397269
West North Central397163915461223417,37915,5376,6594,1032,043894248,8784,917
Delaware9211007905825301205960052437
Maryland9742241512555,9305,1242,4761,7184182051352,6483,086
District of Columbia221491048708583328238121563255350
Virginia572013205375,5225,0501,8931,42032601473,1571,026
West Virginia24116212131,4311,26360924721431117654370
North Carolina341712500172,8212,5751,12572528111901,450935
South Carolina251211100133,1692,8881,1601,09169001,728774
Georgia823222712507,7397,1973,1872,5115947574,0102,411
Florida8633171204536,1305,8452,5391,837447122433,3062,041
South Atlantic4361831154631925334,35531,35013,6189,9922,45745771217,73211,030
Kentucky8132131720494,5954,2161,49680944124152,7201,026
Tennessee853221902539,3968,4503,5522,89647251794,8982,529
Alabama673531301325,5125,0492,5492,36810141392,5002,563
Mississippi301311101173,7613,4741,7591,6101000491,7151,649
East South Central26311276302415123,26421,1899,3567,6831,11428727211,8337,767
Arkansas37118201264,2243,8761,5671,483410432,309811
Louisiana442314702212,7922,5229646702670271,558831
Oklahoma3687100282,5722,15489085040001,264772
Texas11146301213657,5286,6533,0271,7271,078222003,6262,430
West South Central2288859221614017,11615,2056,4484,7301,426222708,7574,844
Montana35149221211,2081,1054321159320024673486
Idaho2383311155955041841233620532087
Wyoming7330004129119483001807130
Colorado462219300242,6432,218968863604051,250891
New Mexico13330001067864527678331614936940
Arizona32118210212,2561,9829517451901061,031845
Utah187430011434401151886300250100
Nevada2564200192,3172,012428327505101,584107
Mountain1997453154212510,2608,9863,4382,3695253551895,5482,586
Washington164513212251135,1614,2262,1161,455321772632,1102,640
Oregon7932171023472,5042,07078541925841671,285879
California5152101117092030523,79020,3379,9945,9562,94429080410,34310,508
Alaska30177802137846963781021821777318446
Hawaii1310513131,0507356172857648208118935
Guam32100111,7011,54342839000381,115112
Pacific804322173101163248234,99029,60714,3188,6073,7814731,45715,28915,520
Puerto Rico5532101219234,3673,8392,332663883331,2481,5072,674
Virgin Islands1000001881100070
Outlying Areas5632101219244,3753,8472,333664883331,2481,5142,674
Total, all States and areas4,6141,9561,188528541862,658254,220224,116102,71570,65019,3703,5659,130121,40191,161

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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.

948 of 948 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

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.

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Source page 194 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 194.
Source page 195 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 195.
Source page 196 of NLRB FY1985 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1985, p. 196.

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.