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Number of elections and pay-roll checks and number of votes cast for participating unions, 1940-41

printed as Table 19 · source page 44 · nlrb1941_p0044_t0

Participating unionsNumber of elections or pay-roll checks conductedElections or pay-roll checks wonVotes castAgainst unionsTotal valid votes
Participating unionsNumber of elections or pay-roll checks conductedBy A. F. of L. affiliatesBy C. I. O. affiliatesBy national unaffiliated unionsBy local unaffiliated unionsFor A. F. of L. affiliatesFor C. I. O. affiliatesFor national unaffiliated unionsFor local unaffiliated unionsAgainst unionsTotal valid votes
Participating unionsNumber of elections or pay-roll checks conductedNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalNumberPercent of totalAgainst unionsTotal valid votes
A. F. L. affiliates92173379.695,39974.133,315128,714
C. I. O. affiliates89375384.3168,80268.477,966246,768
National unaffiliated unions483981.310,42171.04,25814,679
Local unaffiliated unions625893.58,82789.01,0929,919
A. F. L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates33513139.114242.466,99234.5115,05259.212,362194,406
A. F. L. affiliates-National unaffiliated unions211466.7628.63,68262.72,12936.2645,875
A. F. L. affiliates-Local unaffiliated unions964647.94647.912,77850.111,72045.91,03025,528
A. F. L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates-National unaffiliated unions7457.1114.32753.73,02641.23,65649.83847,341
A. F. L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates-Local unaffiliated unions2328.7626.114.31,88315.35,17242.04,13633.61,11312,304
C. I. O. affiliates-National unaffiliated unions271451.91037.07,64644.35,88534.13,71017,241
C. I. O. affiliates-Local unaffiliated unions1297255.84333.335,92154.225,73538.84,68766,325
National unaffiliated unions-Local unaffiliated unions6233.3466.635343.343152.931815
Total2,56892636.099138.6582.21525.9181,00924.8335,61946.022,4443.150,8497.0140,012729,915

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  1. 1 Includes 1 election in which an A. F. L. and a C. I. O. affiliate were joint petitioners.
  2. 2 Includes 5 elections in which two A. F. L. unions were on the ballot.
  3. 3 Unions not affiliated with the A. F. of L. or the C. I. O. but drawing their membership from the employees of more than 1 employer.
  4. 4 Unions not affiliated with the A. F. of L. or the C. I. O. and drawing their membership from the employees of 1 employer only.

90 of 90 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 2 cells break a sum: 'C. I. O. affiliates-Local unaf', column 20: prints 66,325, the subtotals in columns 11 to 19 add to 66,343; 'Total', column 20: prints 729,915, the subtotals in columns 11 to 19 add to 729,933.

Reader’s notes

p. 44. 20 columns: stub, "Number of elections or pay-roll checks conducted", four Number/Percent pairs under "Elections or pay-roll checks won", four Number/Percent pairs under "Votes cast", "Against unions", "Total valid votes". Empty body cells are printed as dash rules (------) and are transcribed as "". Doubtful digits — the scan degrades some 9s toward 0 at this size, so three cells were resolved against the printed totals, which all reconcile exactly: (a) row "A. F. L. affiliates^1 ^2", column "By A. F. of L. affiliates / Percent of total" reads as either 70.6 or 79.6; 733/921 = 79.6 and every other percent in the table is internally consistent, so 79.6 is transcribed — this is the least certain cell in the grid. (b) Total row, "Number of elections or pay-roll checks conducted" reads as 2,508 or 2,568; the elections column sums to 2,568 and all four Total-row election percents (36.0, 38.6, 2.2, 5.9) are computed on 2,568. (c) Total row, "Total valid votes" reads as 720,915 or 729,915; the column sums to 729,915 and the Total-row vote percents (24.8, 46.0, 3.1, 7.0) are computed on it. Suspected misprint in the source, transcribed as printed: in row "C. I. O. affiliates-Local unaffiliated unions" the "Total valid votes" entry 66,325 does not equal its components (35,921 + 25,735 + 4,687 = 66,343), an 18-vote shortfall. The printed 66,325 is the figure the rest of the table is built on — it reproduces that row's 54.2 and 38.8 percents and is the value needed for the column to total 729,915 — while each component is confirmed by its own column total (335,619; 50,849; 140,012), so the discrepancy is in the source, not in the reading. Every other row and column reconciles with the printed totals and percents.

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Source page 44 of NLRB FY1941 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1941, p. 44.

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.