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Geographic Distribution of Representation Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1991

printed as Table 15A · source pages 207–209 · nlrb1991_p0207_t0

Stitched from pp. 207–209.

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
Maine157700087,8413,7743,1953,068590685797,186
New Hampshire73300046926422301251050041228
Vermont3100102219204120160911384138
Massachusetts6029171011312,8392,5241,223820254301191,3011,539
Rhode Island622000414313643430009330
Connecticut412013520211,6891,505736455221600769609
New England132624215417013,4238,7855,5474,5276391812003,2389,530
New York290140863851115015,04212,5086,1954,1291,1321617736,3136,606
New Jersey147683617114797,1746,0353,0371,602562907832,9982,760
Pennsylvania28011669319716415,47713,8015,8904,1351,1731794037,9114,700
Middle Atlantic71732419186153239337,69332,34415,1229,8662,8674301,95917,22214,066
Ohio23910772312213212,36310,9964,9883,7371,053581406,0084,606
Indiana14159341951829,3638,9623,8112,927608206705,1511,910
Illinois23010766286712310,6669,5074,5382,7551,0283434124,9694,458
Michigan25710958376814815,53713,8026,5304,5171,2672504967,2725,294
Wisconsin12548341202779,0137,9663,5532,7158223134,4132,228
East North Central992430264127192056256,94251,23323,42016,6514,7788601,13127,81318,496
Iowa5526111401293,7353,2191,5768337150281,6431,343
Minnesota11455411211594,6233,8962,1161,48957622291,7802,803
Missouri11445261720694,1443,6511,6451,1055181482,0061,401
North Dakota14532009616477193147460028472
South Dakota1595202656049821313266015285101
Nebraska189710195113821921394508190265
Kansas3197200224,0143,6371,7351,65877001,9022,272
West North Central361158100503520318,20315,7607,6705,5032,04336888,0908,257
Delaware851301361554732378175070224419
Maryland502015401302,4552,1521,0477382310781,105913
District of Columbia147610077405973743372809223451
Virginia542512625294,5753,7222,1717023151559991,5512,175
West Virginia32117220212,0541,92180055810352871,121385
North Carolina2965001232,7782,545928826790231,617279
South Carolina116510058307543242962800430349
Georgia562623300304,2843,7792,2611,508480132601,5182,437
Florida642923501353,5783,4681,24683933728422,2221,005
South Atlantic31813597254918321,90919,4859,4745,8821,7762481,56810,0118,413
Kentucky642113710436,3285,9542,8131,48638294503,1411,817
Tennessee581913420396,7916,4742,8062,4283215703,6681,984
Alabama502320111272,9502,7381,4051,21439251271,3331,574
Mississippi271512201123,0612,6141,2661,176700201,3481,293
East South Central1997858144212119,13017,7808,2906,3048121,0271479,4906,668
Arkansas1710910079458824464024400436426
Louisiana291311101162,2061,9109066889401241,0041,146
Oklahoma29115510182,0321,7957165391561651,079747
Texas923727802557,6957,0363,5952,25087704683,4413,139
West South Central167715215139612,87811,6235,6633,8791,171165975,9605,458
Montana22128400103663321571153309175132
Idaho10660004437393150145500243119
Wyoming7220005321290969600019426
Colorado502214800281,9041,71277658418903936730
New Mexico115410064383921721611100220161
Arizona30148510161,6301,437672426231150765639
Utah135202186996252111423429641484
Nevada25724101898588039627212130484501
Mountain16873462241956,7806,0612,6301,94162447183,4312,392
Washington11967481603528,1706,6763,4722,81330403553,2043,346
Oregon713724814342,4682,15194467314844791,2071,238
California4151811125541023422,04218,8838,8126,1271,85627155810,0719,603
Alaska208800012773635250165442417385146
Hawaii251111000141,5631,1927246398500468880
Guam0000000000000000
Pacific6503042037951734635,01629,53714,20210,4172,4373391,00915,33515,213
Puerto Rico4427101016173,7723,1891,54755720907811,6421,542
Virgin Islands41100039679281500135116
Outlying Areas4828111016203,8683,2681,57557220907941,6931,558
Total, all States and areas3,7521,6631,064434591062,089225,842195,87693,59365,54217,3563,1847,511102,28390,051

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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.

909 of 909 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 207. The crop ends after the "West North Central" subtotal row; the table continues on the following page (remaining census divisions and the national total are not on this image), and no footnote text is printed under the table here, so the superscript 1 on the stub heading "Division and State" has no accompanying note on this crop. 17 columns: stub, "Total elections", the five columns under "Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions", "Number of elections in which no representative was chosen", "Number of employees eligible to vote", "Total valid votes cast", the five columns under "Valid votes cast for unions", "Total votes for no union", and "Eligible employees in units choosing representation". The division subtotal rows (New England, Middle Atlantic, East North Central, West North Central) are printed indented and set off by rules; their labels are given as printed. Scattered stray ink appears in the scan (e.g. a dot before Maine's 3,195 in the "Valid votes cast for unions — Total" column, before New York's 11 in "Other local unions", before New Jersey's 1 and Minnesota's 1 in "Other national unions", before Iowa's 1,643 and Minnesota's 59); these are speckle, not footnote markers or digits. All row and column arithmetic checks internally consistent (each state's total elections = union wins + no representative; component union columns sum to their totals; state values sum to each division subtotal), so no misprints are suspected.

p. 208. Continuation page of Table 15A (17 columns). The stub heading carries footnote marker 1 ("Division and State^1"), but no footnote text is printed within this crop, so `footnotes` is empty. Two printing artifacts in the Mountain subtotal row, both transcribed as the clean number: the "Number of employees eligible to vote" cell is printed as ",6,780" with a stray comma before the 6 (read as 6,780), and the "Valid votes cast for unions / Other local unions" cell has a stray dot to the left of 18 (read as 18). Both readings are confirmed by the column sums below. Verification: every one of the 17 columns in all four subtotal rows (South Atlantic, East South Central, West South Central, Mountain) equals the sum of its component state rows exactly, with no discrepancies, which cross-checks the digits and the column assignment of every cell in the body. Scan quality note: the page is a degraded bitonal scan in which "ri" frequently renders as "n" (e.g. the column head reads "nghts"/"umons"); the headings are transcribed with the intended words "rights" and "unions". Several row labels show faint stray marks in the leader-dot field (e.g. beside Kentucky, Tennessee, Arizona, Utah); these are not footnote markers and were dropped with the leader dots. The table continues beyond this crop (the Pacific division and the U.S. total are not on this page).

p. 209. This is the final continuation page of Table 15A, so the body begins mid-table with the states of the Pacific division; the earlier divisions are on preceding pages. Column headings are reprinted in full on this page, so they are transcribed here. Row structure: "Pacific" and "Outlying Areas" are indented division subtotal rows (set off by rules), and "Total, all States and areas" is the grand total for the whole table. Verification: every column of the Pacific subtotal equals the sum of its six states, and every column of the Outlying Areas subtotal equals Puerto Rico plus Virgin Islands, so the digits in those blocks are cross-checked and consistent. The grand total covers divisions not shown on this crop and could not be checked. Stray ink/specks on the scan, none treated as content: a faint dot left of the "0" in Washington / "Other national unions" (valid votes cast for unions); a dot left of "558" in California / "Other local unions" (valid votes cast for unions); a dot left of "17" in the Pacific row / "Other local unions" (elections won by unions); a mark in the stub margin near the heading and near the "Virgin Islands" row. The scan renders some "i" dots faintly (e.g. "California", "Virgin", "unions"), but the words are unambiguous. The footnote marker 1 is attached to the stub heading "Division and State".

Source image

Source page 207 of NLRB FY1991 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1991, p. 207.
Source page 208 of NLRB FY1991 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1991, p. 208.
Source page 209 of NLRB FY1991 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1991, p. 209.

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.