NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1945 › Elections and cross-checks conducted during the fiscal years 1936-45, by type
| Fiscal year | Number of elections and cross-checks | Percent of total | Number of eligible voters | Valid votes cast | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal year | Total | Consent | Ordered | Consent | Ordered | Number of eligible voters | Valid votes cast |
| 1936–45 | 23,948 | 17,119 | 6,829 | 71.5 | 28.5 | 7,284,486 | 6,114,725 |
| 1936 | 31 | 23 | 8 | 74.2 | 25.8 | 9,512 | 7,734 |
| 1937 | 265 | 217 | 48 | 81.9 | 18.1 | 181,424 | 164,207 |
| 1938 | 1,152 | 812 | 340 | 70.5 | 29.5 | 394,558 | 343,587 |
| 1939 | 746 | 481 | 265 | 64.5 | 35.5 | 207,597 | 177,215 |
| 1940 | 1,192 | 676 | 516 | 56.7 | 43.3 | 595,075 | 532,355 |
| 1941 | 2,566 | 2,034 | 532 | 79.3 | 20.7 | 788,311 | 729,737 |
| 1942 | 4,212 | 3,317 | 895 | 78.7 | 21.3 | 1,296,567 | 1,067,037 |
| 1943 | 4,153 | 2,991 | 1,162 | 72.0 | 28.0 | 1,402,040 | 1,126,501 |
| 1944 | 4,712 | 3,203 | 1,509 | 68.0 | 32.0 | 1,322,225 | 1,072,594 |
| 1945 | 4,919 | 3,365 | 1,554 | 68.4 | 31.6 | 1,087,177 | 893,758 |
55 of 55 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.
p. 15. Eight columns: the stub plus three under \"Number of elections and cross-checks\" (Total, Consent, Ordered), two under \"Percent of total\" (Consent, Ordered), and two tall single headings (\"Number of eligible voters\", \"Valid votes cast\").\n\nThe first body row is the 1936-45 cumulative total line, set off by a rule above the annual rows; its stub reads \"1936-45\" with an en dash, transcribed as \"1936–45\".\n\nArithmetic check (not used to alter any cell): in every annual row Consent + Ordered = Total, and each of the five numeric columns sums down the ten annual rows exactly to the 1936-45 line. No misprints detected.\n\nThe footnote line is clipped along its lower edge by the crop; the descenders are cut but the text is legible and transcribed in full. The lead character is the raised marker 1 (printed as a superscript), matching the \"Consent^1\" headings.\n\nMinor scan artifacts, none affecting the reading: a stray ink speck left of \"6, 114, 725\" in the 1936-45 row, a speck left of \"1, 554\" and a hook-like mark after \"31. 6\" in the 1945 row, and a mark in the blank area right of \"729, 737\" in the 1941 row. Several digits are rendered with the period typeface in which 0 and 6 look alike at low resolution; I read 1941 Consent percent as 79.3 and 1938 Total as 1,152, both confirmed by the column sums.
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.