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Geographic Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 2003

printed as Table 15B · source pages 178–180 · nlrb2003_p0178_t0

Stitched from pp. 178–180.

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 unionsOther national unionsOther local unionsNumber of elections in which no representative was chosenNumber of employees eligible to voteTotal valid votes castTotalAFL-CIO unionsOther national unionsOther local unionsTotal votes for no unionEligible employees in units choosing representation
Illinois1951019551948,5187,5033,6563,48187883,8472,796
Indiana53252500283,3743,1341,3751,375001,7591,064
Michigan126736742535,7044,8232,7262,4651391222,0973,590
Ohio146717010759,2698,5534,0293,88983574,5243,173
Wisconsin58312902273,3452,8901,3921,3060861,4981,343
East North Central57830128610527730,21026,90313,17812,51630935313,72511,966
Alabama225500171,9741,7707206420781,050159
Kentucky33131021203,6613,4011,2521,20326232,149589
Mississippi11770041,5571,42762462400803390
Tennessee18961291,5961,4387426771946696708
East South Central84342833508,7888,0363,3383,146451474,6981,846
New Jersey130665745647,1306,0723,3102,6903572632,7623,742
New York2551691467168626,23019,65211,7919,9132991,5797,86114,462
Pennsylvania165999153668,8777,8303,8233,620107964,0073,739
Middle Atlantic550334294162421642,23733,55418,92416,2237631,93814,63021,943
Arizona2014122061,037877484415690393459
Colorado28131210151,5091,287677656210610642
Idaho765101512445323284390122508
Montana11660052301677272009597
Nevada36222011142,2641,9671,0296160413938808
New Mexico221310309536469213181302256178
Utah955004157185115115007045
Wyoming32200140382121001726
Mountain136817281556,2855,4352,9342,3601594152,5012,763
Connecticut46242220223,2412,7801,1061,0723401,674717
Maine4100139589312704587
Massachusetts67352816323,3753,0641,6131,472351061,4511,360
New Hampshire6550016985014494490052633
Rhode Island11740347006264752930182151487
Vermont7330042,1922,0291,0271,027001,0021,314
New England14175623106610,3019,0894,7014,340692924,3884,518
Puerto Rico523215017202,5722,2251,11143606751,1141,240
Virgin Islands442020554331140171255
Outlying Areas563617019202,6272,2681,14245006921,1261,295
Alaska21651015686582234194400348190
American Samoa00000000000000
California26515713581410821,62118,23910,1668,7802491,1378,07310,731
Federated States of Micronesia00000000000000
Guam00000000000000
Hawaii241495010892748407321860341542
Marshall Islands00000000000000
Northern Mariana Islands00000000000000
Oregon44292531152,2812,090898659581811,192544
Palau00000000000000
Washington93615551323,3182,7341,6681,531113241,0662,288
Pacific447267229221618028,79824,39313,37311,4855461,34211,02014,295
Delaware1144007534491228211017263144
District Of Columbia171381442,2681,6291,350367479362792,070
Florida80565042245,5464,9072,4762,234881542,4313,193
Georgia33201820134,8344,2771,9901,85113902,2871,284
Maryland62383215243,6162,9521,6841,44062381,2682,064
North Carolina25121002131,9631,8207586971601,062337
South Carolina622004424430184184002466
Virginia181110107790672353343100319376
West Virginia41242220173,0792,6691,2621,262001,4071,232
South Atlantic293180156111311323,05419,84710,2858,5892911,4059,56210,706
Iowa145500969460341041000193470
Kansas191310216726614326251732288399
Minnesota50312371192,8881,95794488038261,0131,384
Missouri57262600313,2582,9661,2541,08616801,712579
Nebraska1333001066762129329300328186
North Dakota52200355421818002415
South Dakota1000013030131300170
West North Central159806992798,3186,8333,2582,951279283,5753,033
Arkansas510014991921351298053570118
Louisiana22111100111,7041,2636795660113584955
Oklahoma11651051,080901267239280634250
Texas55312443244,3664,1462,3421,5164333931,8042,296
West South Central93494054448,1417,2313,6392,6194615593,5923,619
Total, all States and areas2,5371,4371,25387971,100168,759143,58974,77264,6792,9227,17168,81775,984

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  1. 1 Does not include decertification (RD) elections.
  2. 2 The States are grouped according to the method used by the Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce.
  3. 3 Due to technical difficulties, data discrepancies exceed 1 percent but are less than 3 percent in case totals for Tables 11, 15B, 15C, and 16.

791 of 791 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 178. The crop cuts the table off at the bottom in the middle of the Mountain division: Utah is the last printed row, and the remaining state(s) and the division subtotal line are not on this image. No footnote texts are visible on the crop even though markers 1 (caption), 2 (stub heading "Division and State") and 3 (heading "Total elections") are printed; the footnote block falls below the crop. The three division subtotal lines shown (East North Central, East South Central, Middle Atlantic) each add up exactly to their member states in every column, so column alignment is well supported. One printed oddity, transcribed as printed: Utah's "Total valid votes cast" (185) exceeds its "Number of employees eligible to vote" (157); every other row has valid votes cast at or below eligible employees, so this looks like a misprint in the source. All cells were legible; no doubtful digits.

p. 179. This is a continuation page: the table begins on an earlier page, and the first body row (Wyoming) is the tail of the Mountain division, whose subtotal row follows it. No footnote text is printed on this crop, although footnote markers 1 (caption), 2 (stub heading "Division and State") and 3 (heading "Total elections") are present; the footnote definitions must be on another page. The last column heading is broken across lines as "Eligible employ-ees in units choos-ing rep-resentati on" and has been joined to "Eligible employees in units choosing representation". The indented rows Mountain, New England, Outlying Areas and Pacific are division subtotals, printed with the same column structure as the state rows. All four subtotal rows and the component columns were checked against their parts and are internally consistent as printed (the Mountain subtotal could not be fully checked because its earlier states are on the preceding page). The rows for American Samoa, Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and Palau print a zero in every column. Image quality is good and no cell was doubtful.

p. 180. This is a continuation page of Table 15B (the caption carries "—Continued"); earlier geographic divisions appear on the preceding page(s), but the column headings are reprinted here in full, so they are transcribed. The crop contains the final three divisions (South Atlantic, West North Central, West South Central) and the grand-total line. 15 columns. Division subtotal rows (South Atlantic, West North Central, West South Central) are indented under their member States and are set off by rules; they are transcribed as ordinary rows in reading order. The last heading column is printed broken across lines as "Eligible employ- ees in units choos- ing rep- resentati on"; the end-of-line hyphens have been repaired to "Eligible employees in units choosing representation". The final line break falls inside "representation" without a hyphen ("resentati / on"), rejoined without one. Possible printing anomaly, transcribed as printed: for South Carolina the "Total valid votes cast" (430) exceeds the "Number of employees eligible to vote" (424). Nothing was computed, corrected or normalized.

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Source page 178 of NLRB FY2003 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY2003, p. 178.
Source page 179 of NLRB FY2003 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY2003, p. 179.
Source page 180 of NLRB FY2003 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY2003, p. 180.

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.