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Types of elections conducted during the fiscal year 1948

printed as Table 13 · source page 117 · nlrb1948_p0117_t0

Type of case	Total elections		Type of election
Type of case	Number	Percent	Consent		Stipulated		Regional director directed		Board ordered
Type of case	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent	Number	Percent
All elections, total	21,277	100.0	19,367	91.0	720	3.4	722	3.4	468	2.2
Eligible voters, total	2,245,734	100.0	1,877,674	83.6	125,566	5.6	130,667	5.8	111,827	5.0
Valid votes, total	1,971,087	100.0	1,661,806	84.3	105,997	5.4	107,899	5.5	95,385	4.8
NLRA R cases, total	885	100.0	479	54.1	81	9.2	11	1.2	314	35.5
Eligible voters	145,506	100.0	63,295	43.5	9,624	6.6	1,535	1.1	71,052	48.8
Valid votes	124,365	100.0	53,436	43.0	8,599	6.9	1,347	1.1	60,983	49.0
RC cases, total	2,243	100.0	1,566	69.8	551	24.6			126	5.6
Eligible voters	228,634	100.0	107,562	47.0	82,942	36.3			38,130	16.7
Valid votes	200,706	100.0	96,411	48.0	72,003	35.9			32,292	16.1
RM cases, total	94	100.0	74	78.7	15	16.0			5	5.3
Eligible voters	10,425	100.0	4,971	47.7	5,127	49.2			327	3.1
Valid votes	8,829	100.0	4,389	49.7	4,181	47.4			259	2.9
RD cases, total	97	100.0	71	73.2	4	4.1			22	22.7
Eligible voters	8,836	100.0	5,329	60.3	1,190	13.5			2,317	26.2
Valid votes	7,857	100.0	4,876	62.1	1,131	14.4			1,850	23.5
UA cases, total	17,958	100.0	17,177	95.6	69	.4	711	4.0	1
Eligible voters	1,852,333	100.0	1,696,517	91.6	26,683	1.4	129,132	7.0	1
Valid votes	1,629,330	100.0	1,502,694	92.2	20,083	1.2	106,552	6.6	1

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1 Consent elections are held upon the agreement of all parties concerned and are certified by the regional director.
2 Stipulated elections are held upon the agreement of all parties, but provide for certification by the Board.
3 See Appendix B, p. 123, for definitions of types of cases.
4 Includes 10 consent cross checks held prior to Aug. 22, 1947.
5 Less than 0.1 percent.

81 of 81 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 117. Eleven columns: stub, Total elections (Number, Percent), then Number/Percent pairs under Consent, Stipulated, Regional director directed, and Board ordered. In the "NLRA R cases,^3 total" row the raised 4 is printed to the LEFT of 885 in the Total elections Number column; it is a footnote marker, transcribed as 885^4. The Regional director directed columns are a dash rule ("------") for all RC, RM and RD rows; those cells are left empty. The Board ordered Percent cell for the three UA rows is a parenthesized raised 5 (footnote: less than 0.1 percent), transcribed as (^5). Arithmetic checks: every row's four Number components sum exactly to the Total elections Number, and the five case-type blocks sum to the "All elections / Eligible voters / Valid votes" totals, so the digits are well corroborated. One printed percent looks slightly off: in the last row (UA cases, Valid votes), Regional director directed Percent is printed 6.6 while 106,552/1,629,330 = 6.5; transcribed as printed. Scan-quality note: the "Consent" heading renders with a degraded C that can look like an O in this JBIG2 scan; it is Consent. A few digits with the characteristic 6/0 ambiguity of this scan (NLRA R cases Eligible voters Stipulated Percent 6.6; RD cases Eligible voters Board ordered Percent 26.2) were confirmed against the row arithmetic.

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Source page 117 of NLRB FY1948 annual report — Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1948, p. 117.

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