NLRB Stats Archive

NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1998 › Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1998

Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 1998

printed as Table 11B · source page 167 · nlrb1998_p0167_t0

Method and stage of dispositionTotal electionsObjections onlyChallenges onlyObjections and challengesTotal objectionsTotal challenges
Method and stage of dispositionTotal electionsNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercent
All representation elections3,7951774.7531.4170.41945.1701.8
By type of cases
In RC cases3,2891685.1511.6160.51845.6672.0
In RM cases5000000
In RD cases45692.020.410.2102.230.7
By type of election
Consent elections1600000
Stipulated elections3,2351464.5431.3120.41584.9551.7
Expedited elections200000
Regional Director-directed elections534315.8101.950.9366.7152.8
Board-directed elections800000

Download this table (CSV)

  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

19 of 34 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

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 image

Source page 167 of NLRB FY1998 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1998, p. 167.

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.