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Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed Fiscal Year 2005
| 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 | 2,753 | 139 | 5.0 | 33 | 1.2 | 6 | 0.2 | 145 | 5.3 | 39 | 1.4 |
| By type of cases: | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 2,305 | 128 | 5.6 | 26 | 1.1 | 6 | 0.3 | 134 | 5.8 | 32 | 1.4 |
| In RM cases | 51 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 3.9 |
| In RD cases | 397 | 11 | 2.8 | 5 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.0 | 11 | 2.8 | 5 | 1.3 |
| By type of election: | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 92 | 3 | 3.3 | 1 | 1.1 | 0 | 0.0 | 3 | 3.3 | 1 | 1.1 |
| Stipulated elections | 2,234 | 37 | 1.7 | 19 | 0.9 | 1 | 0.0 | 38 | 1.7 | 20 | 0.9 |
| Expedited elections | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed elections | 426 | 99 | 23.2 | 13 | 3.1 | 5 | 1.2 | 104 | 24.4 | 18 | 4.2 |
| 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.
20 of 38 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 137. Twelve columns: stub plus "Total elections" (a tall single heading spanning both header levels, as does the stub heading "Type of election/case") and five two-column Number/Percent blocks. The superscript 1 and 2 on "Total objections" and "Total challenges" are footnote markers keyed to the two notes under the table. "By type of cases:" and "By type of election:" are section lines with no values. The image is clean and every cell is legible. Nothing was computed, but for the reader's information the printed figures are internally consistent: both breakdowns sum to the "All representation elections" line in every column. One cell may look odd without being a misprint — Stipulated elections, "Objections and challenges" Percent, is printed 0.0 beside a Number of 1 (1 of 2,234 rounds to 0.0).
Source image
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.