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Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1996

printed as Table 11B · source page 142 · nlrb1996_p0142_t0

Total electionsObjections onlyChallenges onlyObjections and challengesTotal objectionsTotal challenges
Total electionsNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercent
All representation elections3,4701394.0601.7240.71634.7842.4
By type of case:
In RC cases2,9051274.4511.8200.71475.1712.4
In RM cases5811.723.4011.723.4
In RD cases507112.271.440.8153.0112.2
By type of election:
Consent elections50120.000120.0
Stipulated elections2,9361013.4441.5180.61194.1622.1
Expedited elections100000
Regional Director-directed elections521387.3152.961.2448.4214.0
Board-directed elections700000

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  1. 1 Number of elections in which objections were ruled on, regardless of number of allegations in each election.
  2. 2 Number of elections in which challenges were ruled on, regardless of individual ballots challenged in each election.

23 of 40 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 142. The stub column carries no printed heading, so cell 0 of both heading levels is empty. "Total elections" is a tall single heading spanning both heading levels and is repeated in each. The superscripts on "Total objections" and "Total challenges" are footnote markers, recorded as ^1 and ^2. Percent cells printed as a long dash rule (the zero-count cells in the "Objections and challenges", "Total objections" and "Total challenges" groups, and the Consent/Expedited/Board-directed rows) are transcribed as empty cells. The dash in the "Objections only" Percent column for Consent, Expedited and Board-directed elections is likewise a dash rule, not a value. Both section lines ("By type of case:" and "By type of election:") carry a label only; their value cells are empty as printed. All arithmetic in the grid is internally consistent as transcribed (component rows sum to the "All representation elections" row in every count column, Objections only + Objections and challenges = Total objections, Challenges only + Objections and challenges = Total challenges, and each printed percent matches its count divided by the row's total elections), so no suspected misprints. Note that the 1996 source scan is lossy-compressed, which carries some digit-substitution risk, but the cross-checks above make an undetected digit error unlikely here.

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Source page 142 of NLRB FY1996 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1996, p. 142.

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.