NLRB Stats Archive

NLRB Stats Archive › Annual Reports › FY1949 › Number of decertification elections and number of votes cast for participating unions during the fiscal year 1949

Number of decertification elections and number of votes cast for participating unions during the fiscal year 1949

printed as Table 15 · source page 188 · nlrb1949_p0188_t0

Participating unionsNumber of electionsElections won by—Eligible votersValid votes cast for—
Participating unionsNumber of electionsA. F. of L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsNo unionNumberPercent casting valid votesTotalA. F. of L. affiliatesC. I. O. affiliatesUnaffiliated unionsNo union
Participating unionsNumber of electionsNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNo unionNumberPercent casting valid votesTotalNumberPercentNumberPercentNumberPercentNo union
Total1322216.72518.932.38218,77391.017,0781,97811.67,11041.67284.37,262
A. F. of L. affiliates542240.7324,25090.43,8431,97851.51,865
C. I. O affiliates612439.3379,69991.98,9104,53250.94,378
Unaffiliated unions15213.3131,35088.31,19228724.1905
A. F. of L affiliate-unaffiliated11100.002095.019001789.52
C. I. O. affiliate-unaffiliated11100.003,45490.23,1142,57882.842413.6112

Download this table (CSV)

45 of 45 figures sit in a row or column sum that works out.

Reader’s notes

p. 188. Nineteen columns: stub, "Number of elections", then "Elections won by—" spanning six columns plus "No union" (7 columns), "Eligible voters" spanning Number and Percent casting valid votes, and "Valid votes cast for—" spanning Total, three union pairs and "No union" (8 columns). Decimal points: in this 1-bit scan the decimal point in many percent values is not rendered, so cells print as e.g. "16 7", "91 0", "100 0". I have transcribed them with the decimal point ("16.7", "91.0", "100.0") because other cells in the same columns show the point clearly ("2.3", "11.6", "4.3", "89.5", "82.8", "13.6") and every value reproduces the quotient of the two printed counts to one decimal place. Affected cells: Total row cols "A. F. of L. Percent" (16.7), "C. I. O. Percent" (18.9), "Percent casting valid votes" (91.0), "C. I. O. Percent" of valid votes (41.6); A. F. of L. affiliates row 40.7, 90.4, 51.5; C. I. O affiliates row 39.3, 91.9, 50.9; Unaffiliated unions row 13.3, 88.3, 24.1; A. F. of L affiliate-unaffiliated row 100.0, 95.0; C. I. O. affiliate-unaffiliated row 100.0, 90.2. Row labels: the third body row appears to be printed "C. I. O affiliates" without the period after "O", and the fifth "A. F. of L affiliate-unaffiliated" without the period after "L", unlike the column headings and the last row; these may be genuine typographic omissions or faint periods lost in the scan, and I transcribed them as they appear. Arithmetic check: every column of the five detail rows sums exactly to the printed Total row (elections 132; A. F. of L. won 22; C. I. O. won 25; unaffiliated won 3; no union 82; eligible voters 18,773; valid votes 17,078; 1,978; 7,110; 728; 7,262), so no misprints are suspected. A narrow strip of vertical running text from the page margin is visible at the right edge of the crop, outside the table rules; it is not part of the table.

Source image

Source page 188 of NLRB FY1949 annual report
Source: NLRB Annual Report FY1949, p. 188.

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.