NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1942 › Success of petitioning unions in elections with two parties on the ballot
Success of petitioning unions in elections with two parties on the ballot
| Petitioning union | Intervening union | Elections | Valid votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petitioning union | Intervening union | Number | Percent won by petitioner | Number | Percent won by petitioner |
| A. F. of L. | C. I. O. | 234 | 47.4 | 80,524 | 35.6 |
| A. F. of L. | Unaffiliated | 118 | 59.3 | 37,517 | 49.7 |
| C. I. O. | A. F. of L. | 371 | 66.3 | 220,822 | 54.4 |
| C. I. O. | Unaffiliated | 195 | 63.1 | 161,788 | 57.9 |
| Unaffiliated | A. F. of L. | 71 | 63.4 | 15,608 | 52.7 |
| Unaffiliated | C. I. O. | 70 | 57.1 | 51,561 | 53.8 |
- 1 See table 17 in Appendix, p. 89, for fully detailed results.
0 of 12 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
Reader’s notes
p. 46. Six columns: two stub-type label columns ("Petitioning union", "Intervening union") followed by Elections (Number, Percent won by petitioner) and Valid votes (Number, Percent won by petitioner). The two spanner headings "Elections" and "Valid votes" each cover two columns; "Petitioning union" and "Intervening union" are tall headings spanning both heading levels, so they are repeated in the second level. The abbreviation labels run straight into dash/dot leaders, so a trailing period after "L" and "O" cannot be distinguished from the first leader mark; I have written them as "A. F. of L." and "C. I. O." following standard abbreviation practice. Percentages in the original are set with a space after the decimal point ("47. 4"); the spaces are removed as instructed, as are the spaces in the grouped thousands ("80, 524"). The table has no total row. A stray ink speck appears in the stub area under "Petitioning union" and another in the body between the "Unaffiliated"/row-4 label area and the Elections Number column; neither is a digit or a footnote marker.
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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.