NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1939 › Number of elections won and lost and participation by labor organizations in elections conducted by the N. L. R. B., during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939
Number of elections won and lost and participation by labor organizations in elections conducted by the N. L. R. B., during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1939
| Total appearances on ballot | Won | Lost | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total appearances on ballot | Elections | Valid votes cast | Elections | Valid votes cast | ||||||
| Number | Valid votes cast | Number | Percent of appearances | Number | Percent of total cast | Number | Percent of appearances | Number | Percent of total cast | |
| Unions affiliated with A. F. of L. | 450 | 46,331 | 262 | 58.2 | 32,438 | 70.0 | 188 | 41.8 | 13,893 | 30.0 |
| Unions affiliated with C. I. O. | 487 | 75,312 | 260 | 53.4 | 54,441 | 72.3 | 227 | 46.6 | 20,871 | 27.7 |
| Unaffiliated national unions | 67 | 6,424 | 21 | 31.3 | 3,781 | 58.9 | 46 | 68.7 | 2,643 | 41.1 |
| Unaffiliated local unions | 61 | 9,965 | 31 | 50.8 | 4,138 | 41.5 | 30 | 49.2 | 5,827 | 58.5 |
- 1 This table includes only those elections which were won by some form of labor organization.
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Reader’s notes
p. 61. 11 columns: stub plus 2 columns under "Total appearances on ballot", 4 under "Won" and 4 under "Lost". The stub heading box is printed blank, so the stub cells of the three heading levels are empty. "Total appearances on ballot" is a tall heading occupying the first two heading levels and is repeated there. The footnote marker 1 is printed on the caption line (caption omitted per instructions), not on any row or heading. In the "Won / Valid votes cast / Number" heading there is a small stray ink mark resembling an apostrophe after "Number"; it is a printing artifact, not a footnote marker, and is not transcribed. The right-hand edge of the last column ("Lost / Valid votes cast / Percent of total cast") is slightly clipped by the crop: the final digits of 30.0 (row 1) and 58.5 (row 4) are partly cut, but both are legible and consistent with the printed totals (13,893/46,331 = 30.0; 5,827/9,965 = 58.5). Row labels end with leader dots, which have been dropped; the terminal period of "of L." and "C. I. O." is merged with the leaders and has been retained as printed abbreviation punctuation.
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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.