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Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed Fiscal Year 2004
| Type of election/case | Total elections | Objections only | Challenges only | Objections and challenges | Total objections | Total challenges | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of election/case | Total elections | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent | Number | Percent |
| All representation elections | 2,832 | 136 | 4.8 | 27 | 1.0 | 8 | 0.3 | 144 | 5.1 | 35 | 1.2 |
| By type of cases: | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 2,362 | 116 | 4.9 | 25 | 1.1 | 6 | 0.3 | 122 | 5.2 | 31 | 1.3 |
| In RM cases | 39 | 1 | 2.6 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 2.6 | 2 | 5.1 | 1 | 2.6 |
| In RD cases | 431 | 19 | 4.4 | 2 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.2 | 20 | 4.6 | 3 | 0.7 |
| By type of election: | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 60 | 1 | 1.7 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 1.7 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Stipulated elections | 2,330 | 33 | 1.4 | 14 | 0.6 | 5 | 0.2 | 38 | 1.6 | 19 | 0.8 |
| Expedited elections | 1 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 1 | 100.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed elections | 441 | 101 | 22.9 | 13 | 2.9 | 3 | 0.7 | 104 | 23.6 | 16 | 3.6 |
| Board-directed elections | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
- 1 Number of elections in which objections were ruled on, regardless of number of allegations in each election.
- 2 Number of elections in which challenges were ruled on, regardless of individual ballots challenged in each election.
23 of 41 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 229. The table has 12 printed columns (stub, Total elections, then Number/Percent pairs under five spanner headings). The stub heading "Type of election/case" and "Total elections" are tall single headings spanning both header levels, so they are repeated in each level. Printed arithmetic worth flagging (transcribed as printed, not corrected): under "By type of election" the Total elections column sums to 2,832 (60+2,330+1+441+0), consistent with the all-elections total, but the Objections only Number column sums to 136 (1+33+1+101+0) while the Challenges only Number column sums to 27 and Objections-and-challenges to 8, which are consistent; the by-type-of-case block likewise sums correctly (2,362+39+431 = 2,832). No internal inconsistency found. The "Expedited elections" row shows Total elections = 1 with Objections only = 1 and Percent = 100.0, which is as printed.
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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.