NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1986 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1986
Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1986
| 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 | 4,642 | 433 | 9.3 | 173 | 3.7 | 111 | 2.4 | 544 | 11.7 | 284 | 6.1 |
| By type of case | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 3,600 | 372 | 10.3 | 138 | 3.8 | 92 | 2.6 | 464 | 12.9 | 230 | 6.4 |
| In RM cases | 171 | 12 | 7.0 | 8 | 4.7 | 8 | 4.7 | 20 | 11.7 | 16 | 9.4 |
| In RD cases | 871 | 49 | 5.6 | 27 | 3.1 | 11 | 1.3 | 60 | 6.9 | 38 | 4.4 |
| By type of election | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 123 | 11 | 8.9 | 13 | 10.6 | 2 | 1.6 | 13 | 10.6 | 15 | 12.2 |
| Stipulated elections | 3,707 | 303 | 8.2 | 125 | 3.4 | 92 | 2.5 | 395 | 10.7 | 217 | 5.9 |
| Expedited elections | 7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed elections | 780 | 118 | 15.1 | 34 | 4.4 | 13 | 1.7 | 131 | 16.8 | 47 | 6.0 |
| Board-directed elections | 25 | 1 | 4.0 | 1 | 4.0 | 4 | 16.0 | 5 | 20.0 | 5 | 20.0 |
- 1 Number of elections in which objections were ruled on, regardless of number of allegations in each election
- 2 Number of elections in which challenges were ruled on, regardless of individual ballots challenged in each election
24 of 49 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 252. The scan has dropped or faded the decimal points throughout the five "Percent" columns, so they print on the image as a gap (e.g. "9 3", "11 7", "0 0", "20 0"). All are one-decimal percentages and I have transcribed them with the decimal point restored ("9.3", "11.7", "0.0", "20.0"); every one of the 55 percent cells is consistent with its own Number divided by the row's "Total elections", so the placement is not in doubt. No other digits were altered. The scan is also light on several dotted i/period glyphs in the row labels and footnotes ("Objections", "Stipulated", "Director-directed", "individual"); those are ordinary type and transcribed normally. The stub column carries no printed heading. Both the "By type of case" block (3,600 + 171 + 871) and the "By type of election" block (123 + 3,707 + 7 + 780 + 25) sum to the printed 4,642, and no printed figure appears to be a misprint.
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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.