NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1991 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1991
| 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 | 3,975 | 143 | 3.6 | 85 | 2.1 | 34 | 0.9 | 177 | 4.5 | 119 | 3.0 |
| By type of case: | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 3,294 | 115 | 3.5 | 78 | 2.4 | 32 | 1.0 | 147 | 4.5 | 110 | 3.3 |
| In RM cases | 95 | 4 | 4.2 | 2 | 2.1 | 1 | 1.1 | 5 | 5.3 | 3 | 3.2 |
| In RD cases | 586 | 24 | 4.1 | 5 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.2 | 25 | 4.3 | 6 | 1.0 |
| By type of election: | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 42 | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 2.4 | 0 | 1 | 2.4 | 1 | 2.4 | |
| Stipulated elections | 3,337 | 108 | 3.2 | 62 | 1.9 | 22 | 0.7 | 130 | 3.9 | 84 | 2.5 |
| Expedited elections | 4 | 2 | 50.0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 50.0 | 0 | |||
| Regional Director-directed elections | 581 | 32 | 5.5 | 22 | 3.8 | 12 | 2.1 | 44 | 7.6 | 34 | 5.9 |
| Board-directed elections | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
24 of 45 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 197. Twelve columns: stub, "Total elections" (a tall heading spanning both heading levels), then Number/Percent pairs under five spanner headings. The stub column has no printed heading (only a stray ink dot), so the stub heading cell is empty in both levels. Decimal points: in several percent cells the period is faint or lost in the scan, printing as a space ("1 1", "3 2", "0 7", "3 8"). I have transcribed these as decimals — In RM cases / Objections and challenges Percent = 1.1; Stipulated elections / Objections only Percent = 3.2; Stipulated elections / Objections and challenges Percent = 0.7; Regional Director-directed elections / Challenges only Percent = 3.8. Each is confirmed by recomputation against its own Number and Total elections (1/95=1.1, 108/3,337=3.2, 22/3,337=0.7, 22/581=3.8), so the missing points are scan loss, not a different printed value. In the Regional Director-directed elections row, the "Objections only / Number" cell shows a small tick after "32" ("32'"). It is a scan artifact, not a footnote marker — the table carries only footnote markers 1 and 2, both on headings, and 32 is required by the column sum (1+108+2+32+0 = 143). Transcribed as 32. The two section lines are printed with a faint colon ("By type of case:", "By type of election:"); the colon is partly degraded in the scan. Cells printed as a dash rule (——) in the Percent columns, where the corresponding Number is 0, are transcribed as empty. All internal arithmetic is consistent as transcribed: the two panels of subtotals each sum to the "All representation elections" line in every column, and each Total objections / Total challenges figure equals its "only" plus "and" components.
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.