This is up for discussion.
Please consider the following and offer you opinion or share info that you may know.
In the IBEW, we elect delegates by secret ballot every 5 years and send them to the IBEW Convention.
These delegates elect our International officers.
All of the delegates vote for the office of International President.
But we have 11 Vice Presidents.
There is one Vice President for each IBEW district.
These are called Vice Presidential districts.

Only the delegates sent from Local Unions in a VP District can cast ballots for the Vice President for that District.
So, is it fair to say that a person selected as a Vice President is not a vice president of the entire IBEW. He is only a Vice President of a district?

The Vice Presidential district is the intermediary body that a member from a local union in that district would appeal to when she or he is dissatisfied with a local union finding or the conduct of local union officers or other affairs.
The Vice Presidential District is a step below the International and a step above the Local Union.

As was noted earlier, we elect our Vice Presidents every 5 years

We do this according to the IBEW Constitution which states

Article III Sec. 3. The elections of the International President, International Secretary-Treasurer, and International Executive Council Chairman shall be by secret ballot, per capita tax vote when there is more than one candidate, and shall require a majority of all votes cast to constitute an election. When there are more than two candidates for the same office, at every unsuccessful balloting the one receiving the lowest number of votes shall be dropped, the voting then to continue until one has received a majority over all.

However, the choice for International Vice Presidents, the International Executive Council (except the I.E.C. Chairman) and delegates to other Conventions shall be recommended to the Convention by each district. The Convention shall adopt the district's recommendation as its own action, by the I.S.T casting one ballot for the district's choice. The choice of each district shall be decided by a majority of the L.U.'s of the district represented at the Convention-and present at the time the choice is made - on the basis of one vote for each L.U., by secret ballot, not by a delegate or per capita tax vote. If the district is unable to determine its choice, then the Convention shall decide any contest by a roll call, per capita tax vote.
The vote of each L.U. shall be decided by a majority of its delegates. If the delegates of a L.U. are equally divided, then the L.U. shall have no vote. When there are more than two candidates for the same office in the district, at every unsuccessful balloting the one receiving the lowest number of votes shall be dropped, the voting then to continue until one has received a majority over all.
(Nothing in this Constitution shall be construed to conflict with the above section.)

But, and this is a big but
The LMRDA which was passed in 1959 and is current Federal Law states the following

TITLE IV - ELECTIONS
Terms of Office; Election Procedures
(29 U.S.C. 481)
SEC. 401.
(d) Officers of intermediate bodies, such as general committees, system boards, joint boards, or joint councils, shall be elected not less often than once EVERY FOUR YEARS by secret ballot among the members in good standing or by labor organization officers representative of such members who have been elected by secret ballot.

According to the Federal Law, officers of intermediary bodies are required to be elected every FOUR years.

So, then, are our VP Districts intermediary bodies and, if so, then are not our Vice Presidents the described officers of these intermediary bodies?

And if we can answer yes to both of these questions, should we not be electing our VP's every FOUR years?