NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1941 › Number of elections and pay-roll checks and number of votes cast for participating unions, 1940-41
| Participating unions | Number of elections or pay-roll checks conducted | Elections or pay-roll checks won | Votes cast | Against unions | Total valid votes | ||||||||||||||
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| Participating unions | Number of elections or pay-roll checks conducted | By A. F. of L. affiliates | By C. I. O. affiliates | By national unaffiliated unions | By local unaffiliated unions | For A. F. of L. affiliates | For C. I. O. affiliates | For national unaffiliated unions | For local unaffiliated unions | Against unions | Total valid votes | ||||||||
| Participating unions | Number of elections or pay-roll checks conducted | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Number | Percent of total | Against unions | Total valid votes |
| A. F. L. affiliates | 921 | 733 | 79.6 | 95,399 | 74.1 | 33,315 | 128,714 | ||||||||||||
| C. I. O. affiliates | 893 | 753 | 84.3 | 168,802 | 68.4 | 77,966 | 246,768 | ||||||||||||
| National unaffiliated unions | 48 | 39 | 81.3 | 10,421 | 71.0 | 4,258 | 14,679 | ||||||||||||
| Local unaffiliated unions | 62 | 58 | 93.5 | 8,827 | 89.0 | 1,092 | 9,919 | ||||||||||||
| A. F. L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates | 335 | 131 | 39.1 | 142 | 42.4 | 66,992 | 34.5 | 115,052 | 59.2 | 12,362 | 194,406 | ||||||||
| A. F. L. affiliates-National unaffiliated unions | 21 | 14 | 66.7 | 6 | 28.6 | 3,682 | 62.7 | 2,129 | 36.2 | 64 | 5,875 | ||||||||
| A. F. L. affiliates-Local unaffiliated unions | 96 | 46 | 47.9 | 46 | 47.9 | 12,778 | 50.1 | 11,720 | 45.9 | 1,030 | 25,528 | ||||||||
| A. F. L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates-National unaffiliated unions | 7 | 4 | 57.1 | 1 | 14.3 | 275 | 3.7 | 3,026 | 41.2 | 3,656 | 49.8 | 384 | 7,341 | ||||||
| A. F. L. affiliates-C. I. O. affiliates-Local unaffiliated unions | 23 | 2 | 8.7 | 6 | 26.1 | 1 | 4.3 | 1,883 | 15.3 | 5,172 | 42.0 | 4,136 | 33.6 | 1,113 | 12,304 | ||||
| C. I. O. affiliates-National unaffiliated unions | 27 | 14 | 51.9 | 10 | 37.0 | 7,646 | 44.3 | 5,885 | 34.1 | 3,710 | 17,241 | ||||||||
| C. I. O. affiliates-Local unaffiliated unions | 129 | 72 | 55.8 | 43 | 33.3 | 35,921 | 54.2 | 25,735 | 38.8 | 4,687 | 66,325 | ||||||||
| National unaffiliated unions-Local unaffiliated unions | 6 | 2 | 33.3 | 4 | 66.6 | 353 | 43.3 | 431 | 52.9 | 31 | 815 | ||||||||
| Total | 2,568 | 926 | 36.0 | 991 | 38.6 | 58 | 2.2 | 152 | 5.9 | 181,009 | 24.8 | 335,619 | 46.0 | 22,444 | 3.1 | 50,849 | 7.0 | 140,012 | 729,915 |
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.
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.
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.