NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1947 › Elections and cross checks conducted during the fiscal years 1936-47, by affiliation of winning union
| Fiscal year | Number of elections and cross checks | Elections and cross checks won by— | Valid votes cast for— | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal year | Number of elections and cross checks | A. F. of L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliated unions | No union | A. F. of L. affiliates | C. I. O. affiliates | Unaffiliates union | Against union |
| Total, 1936-47 | 36,969 | 12,353 | 13,837 | 3,920 | 6,859 | [2] | [2] | 1,050,267 | 1,531,301 |
| 1936 | 31 | 18 | 4 | 9 | [2] | [2] | 1,593 | 1,410 | |
| 1937 | 265 | 98 | 123 | 29 | 15 | [2] | [2] | 28,940 | 21,707 |
| 1938 | 1,152 | 263 | 553 | 129 | 207 | [2] | [2] | 49,481 | 61,117 |
| 1939 | 746 | 262 | 260 | 52 | 172 | [2] | [2] | 16,389 | 39,183 |
| 1940 | 1,192 | 386 | 407 | 128 | 271 | [2] | [2] | 64,625 | 96,513 |
| 1941 | 2,568 | 926 | 991 | 210 | 441 | 181,009 | 335,619 | 73,293 | 140,012 |
| 1942 | 4,212 | 1,522 | 1,723 | 391 | 576 | 206,442 | 560,815 | 127,834 | 171,946 |
| 1943 | 4,153 | 1,398 | 1,766 | 416 | 573 | 267,118 | 515,271 | 140,780 | 203,382 |
| 1944 | 4,712 | 1,500 | 1,890 | 593 | 729 | 199,989 | 445,528 | 183,066 | 244,011 |
| 1945 | 4,919 | 1,620 | 1,898 | 560 | 841 | 215,453 | 350,295 | 140,821 | 187,189 |
| 1946 | 5,589 | 2,004 | 1,958 | 484 | 1,143 | 175,332 | 263,641 | 90,874 | 168,965 |
| 1947 | 6,920 | 2,196 | 2,138 | 860 | 1,726 | 208,524 | 288,381 | 124,827 | 183,742 |
| July 1-Aug. 21, 1947 | 510 | 160 | 130 | 64 | 156 | 17,316 | 20,928 | 7,744 | 12,174 |
83 of 113 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out. 1 cell breaks a sum: 'Total, 1936-47^1', column 10: prints 1,531,301, rows '1936' to 'July 1-Aug. 21, 1947' add to 1,531,351.
p. 97. Ten columns. "Fiscal year" and "Number of elections and cross checks" are tall single headings spanning both heading levels; "Elections and cross checks won by—" spans columns 2-5 and "Valid votes cast for—" spans columns 6-9. The cells printed as a parenthesised raised 2 (the 1936-1940 rows and the total row, in the two "Valid votes cast for—" A. F. of L. and C. I. O. columns) are reference marks to footnote 2 and are the entire cell content; they are transcribed as "(2)". 1936, column "C. I. O. affiliates" (elections won) is a dash rule in the image, transcribed as "". Doubtful cell: 1943, "A. F. of L. affiliates" (elections won). The glyph is ambiguous between 6 and 8 in this 1-bit scan; I read it as 1,398 because that is the only single-cell reading consistent with both the printed row total (4,153 = 1,398+1,766+416+573) and the printed column total (12,353). If the intended digit were 6 both printed totals would have to be wrong. Every other row and every other column foots exactly to the printed totals. Suspected misprint or misread in the "Against union" column: the twelve fiscal-year rows plus the July 1-Aug. 21, 1947 row sum to 1,531,351, while the total row prints 1,531,301, a difference of 50. I could not identify which cell is at fault (a tens digit read as 3 where 8 is printed, or a 5 read as 0 in the total itself), so all values are transcribed as read. Heading doubt: column 8's heading under "Valid votes cast for—" is set over three lines with an end-of-line hyphen and prints as "Unaffil-/iates/union"; I joined it to "Unaffiliates union". It may be intended as "Unaffiliated union", matching "Unaffiliated unions" in column 4, but I transcribed the characters as they appear. A printer's signature line "766309—48——7" appears below the footnotes at the bottom left of the crop; it is not part of the table and is omitted.
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.