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Representation Elections in Which Objections and/or Determinative Challenges Were Ruled On in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 2009
| 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 | 1,695 | 53 | 3.1 | 25 | 1.5 | 6 | 0.4 | 59 | 3.5 | 31 | 1.8 |
| By type of cases: | |||||||||||
| In RC cases | 1,399 | 46 | 3.3 | 19 | 1.4 | 5 | 0.4 | 51 | 3.6 | 24 | 1.7 |
| In RM cases | 17 | 2 | 11.8 | 1 | 5.9 | 0 | 0.0 | 2 | 11.8 | 1 | 5.9 |
| In RD cases | 279 | 5 | 1.8 | 5 | 1.8 | 1 | 0.4 | 6 | 2.2 | 6 | 2.2 |
| By type of election: | |||||||||||
| Consent elections | 47 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Stipulated elections | 1,440 | 11 | 0.8 | 17 | 1.2 | 2 | 0.1 | 13 | 0.9 | 19 | 1.3 |
| Expedited elections | 1 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0.0 |
| Regional Director-directed elections | 207 | 42 | 20.3 | 8 | 3.9 | 4 | 1.9 | 46 | 22.2 | 12 | 5.8 |
| 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 37 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 123. Eleven printed columns besides the stub are grouped under two heading levels; the stub heading "Type of election/case" and the single tall heading "Total elections" are repeated in both levels. The caption's footnote marker 1 is attached to the title (omitted per instructions); the marker 2 belongs to the "Total challenges" spanner heading and is recorded there. The two section lines ("By type of cases:" and "By type of election:") carry labels only; their value cells are blank in the image. All printed figures are internally consistent (1,399+17+279 = 1,695; 47+1,440+1+207+0 = 1,695; each "Total objections"/"Total challenges" equals its component columns plus the "Objections and challenges" column), so no suspected misprints. Image is clean and fully legible; nothing appears cut off by the crop.
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.