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Geographic Distribution of Collective-Bargaining Elections Held in Cases Closed, Fiscal Year 2009

printed as Table 15B · source pages 136–138 · nlrb2009_p0136_t0

Stitched from pp. 136–138.

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
Illinois876524383225,9735,1223,2797352,3491951,8434,330
Indiana21105411169057532713413459248357
Michigan473211192152,1641,8381,158160921776801,067
Ohio452413101212,0221,77495139553224823969
Wisconsin1485306710479210118920269329
East North Central214139587477511,5599,7885,9251,5424,0283553,8637,052
Alabama851403544494222146760272136
Kentucky9532049258503471392080503239
Mississippi111036116344493741072184975611
Tennessee118233334228418652706498224
East South Central39289154112,4452,0771,1294445721139481,210
Puerto Rico241846861,4371,149867165516512821,109
U.S. Minor Outlying Islands00000000000000
Virgin Islands32200154543030002427
Island Areas272066871,4911,203897195516513061,136
New Jersey835216333313,0562,6151,541504971661,0741,992
New York1941273582106710,8497,6644,8871,4963,0663252,7778,079
Pennsylvania724519233273,5943,1271,5765778821171,5511,865
Middle Atlantic349224701381612517,49913,4068,0042,5774,9195085,40211,936
Arizona97610242427922361162056132
Colorado12129300354350256147109094354
Idaho54310124924717850128069242
Montana630303261219960960123101
Nevada191559142,2541,3601,0333542404393271,970
New Mexico752302156145904446055147
Utah5321021,2271,1097539266103561,212
Wyoming11100055550005
Mountain645028211144,9303,7142,6347531,4424391,0804,163
Connecticut3831919371,4881,209816243448125393977
Maine210101322410190144
Massachusetts61429303195,0123,9152,3553301,7352901,5603,164
New Hampshire5514001871631206114043187
Rhode Island131009131,1831,05564843462984071,043
Vermont321101343291190160300101324
New England1229120647318,2456,6574,1397442,6827132,5185,699
Alaska118530339835126443213887333
American Samoa00000000000000
California13910036586397,4835,7703,8529562,5643321,9185,068
Federated States of Micronesia00000000000000
Guam00000000000000
Hawaii141182135034433002147313143451
Marshall Islands00000000000000
Northern Mariana Islands00000000000000
Oregon2921317181,3641,12171511051194406897
Palau00000000000000
Washington623716210252,3741,7981,15344570806451,774
Pacific2551776810187812,1229,4836,2841,7684,0694473,1998,523
Delaware75230230826618829159078214
District Of Columbia2422471121,654984810893343871741,501
Florida35241662111,8411,342842285531265001,409
Georgia1813102154934222851973256137392
Maryland2015321052,4551,4269323923312094942,363
North Carolina12523075,4394,7262,378792,29902,3484,714
South Carolina653111908866481262265
Virginia11953124563231961275415127297
West Virginia63300359554526024911028546
South Atlantic1391014827263813,33110,1225,9571,4953,7636994,16511,001
Iowa103210735333712618108021176
Kansas121046021,5701,349629236060720657
Minnesota2412750121,2601,083618745431465658
Missouri2820119081,0207714782112670293848
Nebraska4440001179974740025117
North Dakota11100066660006
South Dakota32110151462791801946
West North Central825230220304,3773,6911,9584151,54211,7332,408
Arkansas50000519717350282201230
Louisiana1814311049696314201222980211807
Oklahoma9734026904832971231740186499
Texas3728918192,3041,9761,16350365468131,228
West South Central694915331204,1603,2631,9307761,14861,3332,534
Total, all States and areas1,3609313525017842980,15963,40438,85710,70924,2163,93224,54755,662

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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.

815 of 815 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 136. Crop is page 1 of 3 of Table 15B; the table continues beyond the bottom of this image. The last printed row here is Massachusetts, which belongs to a New England division whose subtotal line falls on the next page. No footnote texts are printed on this page — the markers 1 (in the caption) and 2 (on the stub heading "Division and State") refer to notes printed elsewhere in the table's run; the stub-heading marker is retained as "Division and State^2". Fifteen columns: stub, "Total elections", a four-column "Number of elections in which representation rights were won by unions" block (Total / AFL-CIO unions / Other national unions / Other local unions), three single tall columns, a four-column "Valid votes cast for unions" block with the same four sub-headings, then "Total votes for no union" and "Eligible employees in units choosing representation". "AFL-CIO" is typeset with a dash glyph longer than a hyphen (an en dash) and broken across lines as "AFL-" / "CIO"; transcribed here with a plain hyphen as one word. All printed division subtotals (East North Central, East South Central, Island Areas, Middle Atlantic, Mountain) were checked against the sum of their member states in every column and agree; no apparent misprints. Image is a clean vector-quality render and all digits were legible.

p. 137. Crop is page 2 of 3 of Table 15B; it is cut off at the bottom after the Nebraska row (the West North Central division subtotal and later divisions continue on the next page). No footnote texts are printed on this crop, although the caption carries markers 1 and 2 and the stub heading is "Division and State" with a raised 2. The division subtotal lines (New England, Pacific, South Atlantic) are printed indented and set off by double rules; New England's and Pacific's component states begin on the preceding page, so their subtotals exceed the sum of the state rows shown here. All internal arithmetic that can be checked within this crop (union subtotals, union + no-union = total valid votes, won + no-representative = total elections, and the South Atlantic column sums) balances as transcribed. One value worth flagging as unusual but clearly printed: West Virginia, "Eligible employees in units choosing representation" = 46 (against 595 eligible to vote); it is confirmed by the South Atlantic column total of 11,001. The dash in "AFL–CIO" is printed as an en dash.

p. 138. 15 columns (stub plus 14 data columns). The page is the last of a three-page table, so the body opens mid-division: North Dakota and South Dakota are the closing States of the West North Central division, whose earlier States appear on the preceding page; the "West North Central" and "West South Central" lines are division subtotals, indented in the stub. Column headings are printed on this page and are transcribed as shown. "AFL–CIO" is set with an en dash in the heading. All cells are legible and no cross-checkable printed total appeared inconsistent (e.g., Texas 503 + 654 + 6 = 1,163; grand total 10,709 + 24,216 + 3,932 = 38,857). The Arkansas row legitimately shows 0 in the last column (no elections won) despite 50 valid union votes.

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Source page 136 of NLRB FY2009 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY2009, p. 136.
Source page 137 of NLRB FY2009 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY2009, p. 137.
Source page 138 of NLRB FY2009 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY2009, p. 138.

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.