NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1986 › Objections Filed in Representation Cases Closed, by Party Filing, Fiscal Year 1986
| Total | By employer | By union | By both parties | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percent by type | Number | Percent by type | Number | Percent by type | Number | Percent by type | |
| All representation elections | 591 | 100.0 | 139 | 23.5 | 416 | 70.4 | 36 | 6.1 |
| By type of case | ||||||||
| RC cases | 502 | 100.0 | 117 | 23.3 | 354 | 70.5 | 31 | 6.2 |
| RM cases | 20 | 100.0 | 6 | 30.0 | 13 | 65.0 | 1 | 5.0 |
| RD cases | 69 | 100.0 | 16 | 23.2 | 49 | 71.0 | 4 | 5.8 |
| By type of election | ||||||||
| Consent elections | 14 | 100.0 | 2 | 14.3 | 11 | 78.6 | 1 | 7.1 |
| Stipulated elections | 430 | 100.0 | 103 | 24.0 | 300 | 69.7 | 27 | 6.3 |
| Expedited elections | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Regional Director-directed elections | 142 | 100.0 | 32 | 22.6 | 102 | 71.8 | 8 | 5.6 |
| Board-directed elections | 5 | 100.0 | 2 | 40.0 | 3 | 60.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
31 of 31 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 253. Nine columns: stub plus four two-column panels (Total; By employer; By union; By both parties^2), each with Number and "Percent by type". The stub column has no printed heading, so cell 0 of both heading levels is empty. Scan quality: this page is a low-contrast scan in which periods are almost entirely dropped by the thresholding. Every percent cell is printed as e.g. "100 0", "23 5", "70 4" with no visible decimal point; I have restored the decimal points (100.0, 23.5, 70.4, ...), since these are percentages by type and the spacing is exactly where the point belongs. Likewise the two footnotes show no visible terminal period and I have restored it. No other character was altered. Cells where the percent column is a dash rule ("——", row "Expedited elections", all four panels) are transcribed as "" per the empty-cell rule; the Number cells in that row are a printed 0 and are kept as 0. Doubtful cell: "Consent elections", "By both parties^2 / Number" prints as a very faint single stroke. I read it as 1, which is consistent both with the row (2 + 11 + 1 = 14) and with the column (1 + 27 + 0 + 8 + 0 = 36). Possible misprints, transcribed as printed, not corrected: "Stipulated elections", "By union / Percent by type" reads 69.7, but 300/430 = 69.77, which should round to 69.8; "Regional Director-directed elections", "By employer / Percent by type" reads 22.6, but 32/142 = 22.54, which should round to 22.5. All other percentages and all the number columns cross-foot correctly (139 + 416 + 36 = 591; 502 + 20 + 69 = 591; 14 + 430 + 0 + 142 + 5 = 591).
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.