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Geographic Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1987

printed as Table 15A · source pages 241–243 · nlrb1987_p0241_t0

Stitched from pp. 241–243.

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
Maine1775200101,0949993883484000611265
New Hampshire411000345431881000253
Vermont20000022642531101888401430
Massachusetts9543271312526,0495,4472,6261,865485182942,8212,430
Rhode Island25127230131,2051,132577388571320555598
Connecticut372111505161,6821,5068573511940312649901
New England180845122479610,3399,3804,5762,9787943984064,8044,197
New York3491801153942216920,60616,2708,0985,1581,0566611,2238,1728,598
New Jersey1777241160151059,3068,0504,2192,555674309603,8314,029
Pennsylvania274138843132013615,85114,3556,9714,4971,454609607,3846,248
Middle Atlantic8003902408675741045,76338,67519,28812,2103,1847513,14319,38718,875
Ohio2399365195414613,48312,2865,2663,915982333367,0204,164
Indiana10540221503656,1585,9722,6061,63775702123,3661,523
Illinois22498572211812611,0779,4175,1323,3618475014234,2856,367
Michigan28212789314315516,57314,5636,8495,1891,146460547,7146,599
Wisconsin10953291833566,8096,0523,2792,4035781531452,7733,524
East North Central959411262105232154854,10048,29023,13216,5054,3101,44787025,15822,177
Iowa422111901211,5181,31958138319008738569
Minnesota963927714574,1673,6481,7261,187366211521,9222,031
Missouri180754523521056,8916,0062,7061,981548681093,3003,002
North Dakota151181114484447331136218490116336
South Dakota5220003301289110108200179103
Nebraska124220087576292461955100383207
Kansas32129300201,5051,3316825889400649876
West North Central382164104457821815,62313,6696,3824,5781,2721733597,2877,124
Delaware105310151,4701,2778406242416329437796
Maryland662412804423,2342,8591,2497162301071961,610923
District of Columbia1410900141,7231,352998788002103541,386
Virginia532922124245,5085,0302,3961,958267341372,6341,608
West Virginia432313820202,2912,102960833903701,142594
North Carolina381913600193,5933,2011,3531,241111011,8481,300
South Carolina1553101101,4341,331702481340187629463
Georgia682718306415,7275,2882,4461,71938303442,8421,728
Florida8840261112483,8063,6311,8011,096443522101,8301,447
South Atlantic3951821193951921328,78626,07112,7459,4561,5823931,31413,32610,245
Kentucky702918911414,6924,3762,0301,41454129462,3461,278
Tennessee96422711135412,61811,0675,2843,8031,228352185,7835,704
Alabama603122117294,5514,1402,2221,5921656091,9181,864
Mississippi21131120081,8801,80988585827009241,172
East South Central247115782331113223,74121,39210,4217,6671,8126987310,97110,018
Arkansas27107201173,0112,6621,0721,037220131,590444
Louisiana1552300101,2831,176456418380072079
Oklahoma351212000232,9532,6491,1301,037741901,519755
Texas782916409495,2284,5812,3761,35213108932,2052,180
West South Central155563790109912,47511,0685,0343,844265199066,0343,458
Montana351611410191,3641,204539215862380665588
Idaho13633007905805239216230056687
Wyoming5440001278254139139000115231
Colorado5728171001292,2821,9381,0414615340468971,405
New Mexico134400096325702311527900339151
Arizona492110902284,8164,4531,7381,02946602432,715767
Utah13871005644602303295800299512
Nevada148610166455793612718109218355
Mountain1999562281410411,56610,4054,5912,7781,2772382985,8144,096
Washington168683926031006,8715,8053,0071,853879422332,7983,686
Oregon642111712432,8472,4441,232736288401681,2121,122
California442170846132227221,88318,8328,7434,7602,6921711,12010,0898,436
Alaska1264011699974635327643934393355
Hawaii1832100151,7851,433493230861770940166
Guam1000001241988000110
Pacific7052681409552843734,40929,27913,8367,8633,9494691,55515,44313,765
Puerto Rico38187407203,6473,0191,54845211009861,4711,451
Virgin Islands95500041,3761,23185154200309380978
Outlying Areas472312407245,0234,2502,39999411001,2951,8512,429
Total, all States and areas4,0691,7881,105456551722,281241,825212,479102,40468,87318,5553,95711,019110,07596,384

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Reader’s notes

p. 241. The crop cuts the table off after the "West North Central" subtotal row: the remaining geographic divisions (South Atlantic, Mountain, Pacific, etc.) and the U.S. total, plus the text of footnote 1 attached to the stub heading "Division and State", are not on this image, so `footnotes` is empty. Doubtful cell: Middle Atlantic row, "Valid votes cast for unions / AFL-CIO unions" column. The scan renders the leading digit as a broken stroke that looks like "!2,210"; I read it as 12,210, which is consistent with the printed state values above it (5,158 + 2,555 + 4,497 = 12,210) and with the row's own Total of 19,288. Stray scan artifacts, not part of any value and not transcribed: a small ink speck between the "Other national unions" and "Other local unions" election columns on the South Dakota line, a stray period before South Dakota's "0" in the Teamsters election column, and a speck before Nebraska's "51" in the Teamsters valid-votes column. No other arithmetic anomalies: every state row's union-vote components sum to its union total, union total plus no-union votes equals total valid votes cast, and each division subtotal equals the sum of its states as printed.

p. 242. The crop is a continuation page ("—Continued") and is cut off at the bottom: the Mountain division runs from Montana through Utah here, but the remaining Mountain state(s) (e.g. Nevada), the Mountain subtotal line, and the Pacific division are below the bottom edge and are not transcribed. The stub heading carries footnote marker 1 ("Division and State^1"), but no footnote text is printed on this crop (it appears on the table's first page). Scan artifacts, none of which I read as data: a stray dash left of the "5" in the Delaware "no representative chosen" cell; a stray mark left of the "9" in the New Mexico "no representative chosen" cell; stray dots around the "4" in Wyoming "AFL-CIO unions" (elections) and around Utah's "7"/"1" and "0" cells. Utah's Teamsters-elections digit is printed as a broken "1" and is read as 1. Internal arithmetic checks pass: in every division subtotal row each column equals the sum of its member states, and in each row the union-vote components (AFL-CIO + Teamsters + other national + other local) sum to the "Valid votes cast for unions — Total" figure. No printed value appears to be a misprint.

p. 243. The crop continues a table from the previous page: the body opens on "Nevada", the last State of the Mountain division, whose earlier States are not on this image. Column headings are printed here, so they are given. A footnote line is printed below the table rule but is sliced by the bottom edge of the crop — only the upper few pixels of its letters survive. It appears to be footnote 1 (the marker on "Division and State"), ending "...used by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce", but too little of it is legible to transcribe faithfully, so `footnotes` is left empty rather than reconstructed. A small isolated speck sits in the "Valid votes cast for unions / Total" column just above Nevada's 361, in the blank band between the heading rule and the first data row. It is not attached to any value and reads as a printing artifact, not a footnote marker. Internal arithmetic is consistent throughout, which supports the column assignment: the Pacific line equals the sum of Washington through Guam in all 16 numeric columns; Outlying Areas equals Puerto Rico plus Virgin Islands; and in the grand total 1,105+456+55+172 = 1,788, 1,788+2,281 = 4,069, 68,873+18,555+3,957+11,019 = 102,404, and 102,404+110,075 = 212,479. No printed value appears to be a misprint. Row labels are followed by long leader-dot runs of uneven length (e.g. "Alaska .... ·"), which have been dropped; the labels themselves carry no footnote markers.

Source image

Source page 241 of NLRB FY1987 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1987, p. 241.
Source page 242 of NLRB FY1987 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1987, p. 242.
Source page 243 of NLRB FY1987 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1987, p. 243.

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.