NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1998 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1998
| Method and stage of disposition | Total elections | Objections only | Challenges only | Objections and challenges | Total objections | Total challenges | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Method and stage of disposition | Total elections | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| All representation elections | 3,795 | 177 | 4.7 | 53 | 1.4 | 17 | 0.4 | 194 | 5.1 | 70 | 1.8 |
| By type of cases | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 3,289 | 168 | 5.1 | 51 | 1.6 | 16 | 0.5 | 184 | 5.6 | 67 | 2.0 |
| In RM cases | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| In RD cases | 456 | 9 | 2.0 | 2 | 0.4 | 1 | 0.2 | 10 | 2.2 | 3 | 0.7 |
| By type of election | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Stipulated elections | 3,235 | 146 | 4.5 | 43 | 1.3 | 12 | 0.4 | 158 | 4.9 | 55 | 1.7 |
| Expedited elections | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Regional Director-directed elections | 534 | 31 | 5.8 | 10 | 1.9 | 5 | 0.9 | 36 | 6.7 | 15 | 2.8 |
| Board-directed elections | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
19 of 34 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 167. Twelve columns: stub, Total elections, then Number/Percent pairs under Objections only, Challenges only, Objections and challenges, Total objections^1, Total challenges^2. Decimal points in every Percent cell are lost or nearly lost in this 1-bit scan, so the figures appear as a digit, a gap, then a digit (e.g. the first Percent cell reads "4 7"). They are one-decimal percentages and are transcribed with the decimal point restored (4.7, 1.4, 0.4, 5.1, 1.8, ...); each one is consistent with its Number divided by Total elections, so the reading is secure, but the point itself is not legible on the image. Percent cells printed as a short dash rule ("----", wherever the Number is 0) are transcribed as "". Minor scan artifacts, none affecting values: a stray dot sits to the right of "Stipulated elections" and after "Expedited elections" in the stub, and a stray speck above the "p" of "Expedited"; the "1" in the Objections and challenges / Number column of "In RD cases" is printed with a serif that makes it resemble a lowercase l, but it is a 1. Internal checks (not applied as corrections): the by-type-of-cases rows (3,289 + 50 + 456) and the by-type-of-election rows (16 + 3,235 + 2 + 534 + 8) each sum to the printed 3,795, and Total objections equals Objections only plus Objections and challenges in every row, as does Total challenges.
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.